Personification

Personification is giving human traits (qualities, feelings, action, or characteristics) to non-living objects (things, colors, qualities, or ideas).

Below you will find a few personification poems. Personify an object in a poem of your own.

The Cat & The Fiddle

By Mother Goose

Hey diddle, diddle,
The cat and the fiddle,
The cow jumped over the moon;
The little dog laughed
To see such sport,
And the dish ran away with the spoon.

Two Sunflowers Move in the Yellow Room

By William Blake

"Ah, William, we're weary of weather,"
said the sunflowers, shining with dew."
"Our traveling habits have tired us.
Can you give us a room with a view?"

They arranged themselves at the window
and counted the steps of the sun,
and they both took root in the carpet
where the topaz tortoises run.

Vocabulary

Traits- qualities, feelings.

Few- couple, little.

Object- thing, material.

Laughed- humor, smile

Weary- exhausted, tired.

Habits- repetitive, recurrent

View- outlook, seeing

Topaz- precious stone, blueish

Cloze Exercise: Fill in the blanks with the correct word from the list above.

1: After Paul fell down, I ____ for an hour straight.

2: Working ten days in a row made me ____.

3: My wife's favorite stone is _____.

4: The ___ from the top of the Empire State building was amazing.

5: I have a bad ____ of drinking from the milk carton.

6: The _____ the bullies threw in the water was my watch.

7: My mom has always said that it is better to have a ____ good friends than many acquaintances.

8: A great human ____ is pessimism.