Name: _______________________________
Personification Worksheet 4

Directions: In each sentence, an object or idea is personified.  Identify the object or idea that is being personified and explain which human trait or action is applied to the object or idea.

Personification: a figurative language technique where an object or idea is given human traits or characteristics. 

1.   The sky is that beautiful old parchment
In which the sun and the moon keep their diary.

What is being personified? _______________________________________________________________

Which human trait or quality is given? ______________________________________________________

2.  I will spend my life remembering you
 as shells remember the lost sea. 

What is being personified? _______________________________________________________________

Which human trait or quality is given? ______________________________________________________

3. The wind should breathe to me
The sweetness of the roses and the saltiness of the sea.

What is being personified? _______________________________________________________________

Which human trait or quality is given? ______________________________________________________

4.  On the emerald hills of Carmel the spring and winter have met.  

What is being personified? _______________________________________________________________

Which human trait or quality is given? ______________________________________________________

5.   A tree that may in summer wear
A nest of robins in her hair;

What is being personified? _______________________________________________________________

Which human trait or quality is given? ______________________________________________________

6.  The sun, descending, sows the sea with gold.

What is being personified? _______________________________________________________________

Which human trait or quality is given? ______________________________________________________

7.   You smiled when I pointed where
  A group of birches shivered in the green wood-shadow,
  Up to their knees in water, white and fair

What is being personified? _______________________________________________________________

Which human trait or quality is given? ______________________________________________________

8. And while night rustles through the trees,
  Dragging the stars along, I know
  The moon is rising on the breeze.

What is being personified? _______________________________________________________________

Which human trait or quality is given? ______________________________________________________

9.  Land of singing waters,
  And winds from off the sea,
  God bring me to Northumberland,
  The land where I would be.

What is being personified? _______________________________________________________________

Which human trait or quality is given? ______________________________________________________

10. Time shall surely reap,
  And on Death's blade lie many a flower curled,

What is being personified? _______________________________________________________________

Which human trait or quality is given? ______________________________________________________