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Personification Worksheet 7
Figurative Language Activity
Answer the Short Response Questions?
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Out of the window a sea of green trees
Lift their soft boughs like the arms of a dancer;
They beckon and call me, "Come out in the sun!"
But I cannot answer.
Lift their soft boughs like the arms of a dancer;
They beckon and call me, "Come out in the sun!"
But I cannot answer.
Which is being personified in the above text?
The trees
The sea
The sun
Which human trait, quality, or ability is given?
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Illusion's laughter, fancy's tears,
The mimic loves of yesternight,
On empty stages of the years
Awake in the dim light
The mimic loves of yesternight,
On empty stages of the years
Awake in the dim light
Which is being personified in the above text?
The light
Illusion
Yesternight
Which human trait, quality, or ability is given?
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Who's the jester? He is one,
Who behind the scenes hath been,
Caught Life with his make-up off,
Found him but a harlequin
Cast to play a tragic part--
And the two laughed, heart to heart!
Who behind the scenes hath been,
Caught Life with his make-up off,
Found him but a harlequin
Cast to play a tragic part--
And the two laughed, heart to heart!
Which is being personified in the above text?
The jester
A harlequin
Life
Which human trait, quality, or ability is given?
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The flower of day grew old and withered,
Night with a sigh sat down beside her loom
Winding her shuttle with a silver thread.
Night with a sigh sat down beside her loom
Winding her shuttle with a silver thread.
Which is being personified in the above text?
Night
The flower
Silver thread
Which human trait, quality, or ability is given?
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The herded pines commune, and have deep thoughts,
A secret they assemble to discuss,
When the sun drops behind their trunks which glare like grates
A secret they assemble to discuss,
When the sun drops behind their trunks which glare like grates
Which is being personified in the above text?
The sun
The pines
Thoughts
Which human trait, quality, or ability is given?
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Unkempt about those hedges blows
An English unofficial rose;
Here tulips bloom as they are told;
An English unofficial rose;
Here tulips bloom as they are told;
Which is being personified in the above text?
Wind
Hedges
Tulips
Which human trait, quality, or ability is given?
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Some strange and exquisite desire
Has thrilled this flowering almond tree
Whose branches shake so wistfully,
Has thrilled this flowering almond tree
Whose branches shake so wistfully,
Which is being personified in the above text?
Flowers
Desire
The almond tree
Which human trait, quality, or ability is given?
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Bare of the grudging grass, and bare
Of the tall forest's careless shade,
Of the tall forest's careless shade,
Which is being personified in the above text?
Just the shade
Just the grass
The shade AND the grass
Which human trait, quality, or ability is given?
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Gentle and brown, above the pool,
And laughs the immortal river still
Under the mill, under the mill.
And laughs the immortal river still
Under the mill, under the mill.
Which is being personified in the above text?
The mill
The river
The pool
Which human trait, quality, or ability is given?
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I saw a slowly stepping train--
Lined on the brows, scoop-eyed and bent and hoar--
Following in files across a twilit plain
A strange and mystic form the foremost bore
Lined on the brows, scoop-eyed and bent and hoar--
Following in files across a twilit plain
A strange and mystic form the foremost bore
Which is being personified in the above text?
A train
A plain
A form
Which human trait, quality, or ability is given?
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