Name: _______________________________
Personification Worksheet 8

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. I met Poor Sorrow on the way
   As I came down the years;
  I gave him everything I had
   And looked at him through tears.

What is being personified? _______________________________________________________________

Which human trait or quality is given? ______________________________________________________

2. What are you, fireflies,
That come as daylight dies?

What is being personified? _______________________________________________________________

Which human trait or quality is given? ______________________________________________________

3. And a breeze, on pleasure bent,
Catches in her little hands
  The sharp scent.

What is being personified? _______________________________________________________________

Which human trait or quality is given? ______________________________________________________

4. When all but her were sleeping fast,
  And the night was nearly fled…

What is being personified? _______________________________________________________________

Which human trait or quality is given? ______________________________________________________

5.  I crawled on my hands and lay
Where a shallow crater yawned wide;

What is being personified? _______________________________________________________________

Which human trait or quality is given? ______________________________________________________

6. The wintry rustle of dead leaves falling,
  The whispering wind through the matted glen;

What is being personified? _______________________________________________________________

Which human trait or quality is given? ______________________________________________________

7.  The air is filled as she passes through
    With a subtle, sad perfume.

What is being personified? _______________________________________________________________

Which human trait or quality is given? ______________________________________________________

8.  I stood beside you in the bow,
  Watched the sunlight lose itself among your hair,
  That the breeze tugged at.

What is being personified? _______________________________________________________________

Which human trait or quality is given? ______________________________________________________

9.  Softly at dawn a whisper stole
 Down from the Green House on the Hill.

What is being personified? _______________________________________________________________

Which human trait or quality is given? ______________________________________________________

10. Out on the bay a lone ship light
Makes a silver pathway over the bar
Where the sea sings low.

What is being personified? _______________________________________________________________

Which human trait or quality is given? ______________________________________________________