By Ms Brassil IT Creswell Arts Magnet Personification Giving human or animal characteristics to objects Example The roses welcomed me with their sweet fragrance Roses things but here they are acting like a person by welcoming ID: 400921
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Personification
By Ms. Brassil
I.T. Creswell Arts MagnetSlide2
Personification
Giving
human or animal
characteristics to objects
Example:
The roses welcomed me with their sweet fragrance.
Roses = things, but here they are acting like a person by “welcoming”
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Examples of Personification
The engine snarled and spit as the car disappeared down the road.
Engine = thing, but here it is acting like a person or animal by “snarling” and “spitting”
The aspen tree shivered in the cold dusk.
Tree = thing, but here it is acting like a person by “shivering”Slide4
Thomas Sully (1783-1872), "Lady with a
Harp
: Eliza
Ridgely
"Slide5Slide6
Portrait of Andrew Jackson,
1824, used for the United States' $20 dollar bill from 1928 onward