Personification Worksheet 1
Figurative Language Activity
The wind whispered through the dark and gloomy forest.
Which is being personified in the above text?
The wind
The forest
The dark
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Which human trait or quality is given?
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The gardener lovingly added the manure to his crops believing he was making happy flowers.
Which is being personified in the above text?
The flowers
The manure
The gardener
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Which human trait or quality is given?
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As we walked through the scorching desert, the sun beat down on us.
Which is being personified in the above text?
The walking
The sun
The desert
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Which human trait or quality is given?
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Time crawled as Tim sat in the hot detention room painfully watching the clock tic.
Which is being personified in the above text?
The detention room
The clock
Time
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Which human trait or quality is given?
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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
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Which human trait or quality is given?
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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?
Monica
The high heels
The shoe store
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Which human trait or quality is given?
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When the patriots defeated the redcoat army, freedom rang across the fruited plains.
Which is being personified in the above text?
The patriots
Freedom
The plains
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Which human trait or quality is given?
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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 desk
The pencil
The classmates
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Which human trait or quality is given?
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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?
The yellow wallpaper
Tom's grandmother
The suitcase
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Which human trait or quality is given?
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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?
Guilt
The cookie
The cookie jar
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Which human trait or quality is given?
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