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Personification Worksheet 1
Figurative Language Activity
Answer the Short Response Questions?
Yes No
Yes No
Personification Worksheet 1
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The wind whispered through the dark and gloomy forest.
Which is being personified in the above text?
The wind
The dark
The forest
Which human trait or quality is given?
Personification Worksheet 1
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Incorrect!
The gardener lovingly added the manure to his crops believing he was making happy flowers.
Which is being personified in the above text?
The gardener
The flowers
The manure
Which human trait or quality is given?
Personification Worksheet 1
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Incorrect!
As we walked through the scorching desert, the sun beat down on us.
Which is being personified in the above text?
The desert
The sun
The walking
Which human trait or quality is given?
Personification Worksheet 1
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Incorrect!
Time crawled as Tim sat in the hot detention room painfully watching the clock tic.
Which is being personified in the above text?
Time
The clock
The detention room
Which human trait or quality is given?
Personification Worksheet 1
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Incorrect!
The lumberjack leveled the many trees into a clearing and his chainsaw sang its deadly song.
Which is being personified in the above text?
The clearing
The chainsaw
The trees
Which human trait or quality is given?
Personification Worksheet 1
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Incorrect!
When Monica walked through the shoe store, each shiny pair of high heels called out to her.
Which is being personified in the above text?
The shoe store
Monica
The high heels
Which human trait or quality is given?
Personification Worksheet 1
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Incorrect!
When the patriots defeated the redcoat army, freedom rang across the fruited plains.
Which is being personified in the above text?
The patriots
The plains
Freedom
Which human trait or quality is given?
Personification Worksheet 1
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Incorrect!
As Alice searched for her missing pencil, she said sarcastically, "Well, I guess it just walked off of my desk." She looked at her classmates accusingly.
Which is being personified in the above text?
The classmates
The desk
The pencil
Which human trait or quality is given?
Personification Worksheet 1
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Incorrect!
Kelly was so happy that Tom and she were moving in together, but when she walked into her new residence, she dropped her suitcase. She had never seen the inside of the house which Tom's grandmother had given them, and though she was grateful to receive such a nice gift, the ugly yellow wallpaper in the kitchen screamed at her. She knew she would have a lot of work to do to make her new house livable.
Which is being personified in the above text?
Tom's grandmother
The yellow wallpaper
The suitcase
Which human trait or quality is given?
Personification Worksheet 1
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Incorrect!
William knew that he shouldn't have eaten the last cookie out of the cookie jar. He knew that his father loved to eat chocolate chip cookies after work, but William ate the last one anyway. Now as he waited for his father to come home, guilt poked and chewed at William. As delicious as the cookie was, William now wished that he had never opened that cookie jar.
Which is being personified in the above text?
The cookie
Guilt
The cookie jar
Which human trait or quality is given?
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