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PersonificationGiving human

characteristics or features to objects

Personification Examples

• The flowers begged for water.• The house was lazy and unkempt.• Lightning danced across the sky.• Trees bowed to the ground.• The carved pumpkin smiled at me.• The vines wove their fingers together to form a braid.• The wind whispered softly in the night.• The sun played hide and seek with the clouds.• The camera loved her.• The radio sprang to life at the touch of a button.• The bed groaned.

Can you pick out personification?

Personification Examples

• The wind screamed as it raced around the house.

• The stars winked at me.• The headlights winked.

What words coud you use in the spaces to create a sentence with personification?

Five Things About The Lake by Flora De Flabe

1. The lake is no slave to fashion, but she is proud of her frothy skirt of trees. Her dark, svelte figure.

2. She doesn’t want to talk. The air rushes over her, whistling how have you been? – and she responds with a glassy stare.

3. The lake raises an eyebrow when she is speckled with rain. She doesn’t do anything else but the rain takes the hint.

4. When the lake picks out her foliage she does so with impeccable taste. Even the fallen leaves have agreed on a colour scheme.

5. The lake enjoys being looked at (though she wouldn’t admit it). She likes that I’m writing this.

This is an example of a personification list poem. It is full of personification examples and excellent descriptions. How many

examples of personification can you find?

Getting Started Personification

• Flora de Falbe’s inspiration came from time spent by a lkae during a stay at the Hurst, a Shropshire centre run by creative writing organisation Arvon.

• By using a real place as her inspiration and creating a fictional persona for it, she was able to bring the lake to life.Choose your favourite place or object. Start to think about different

characteristics or qualities that place or object will have. How will he or she react in different circumstances?

Writing Your Own Personification List Poem

• Try to include variety of characteristics and qualities in your poem:– Appearance– Character– Desires – Likes/Dislikes– Past experiences– Interaction with other objects– Feelings/Emotions– Possessions