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Poetry ResourcesPoetry Resources
PersonificationPersonification
Today’s Objectives:•To recognise and understand
the purpose of a poet’ use of personification.
PersonificationPersonification
Where does the word come from?
Answer
The root word in personification is person (human).
DefinitionPersonification is the use of human traits to represent animals, objects, events, and ideas.
Where have you seen animals (real or imaginary) exhibiting these traits and
taking part in these activities?
How does this work?What are some human traits and activities?
Where have you seen animals that exhibit human traits?
• Television– Cartoons– Commercials
• Movies• Stories
– Fables– Fairy Tales– Novels
The flowers danced in the wind.
The Earth coughed and choked in all of the pollution.
The friendly gates welcomed us.
EXAMPLES
More Personification examples
The headlights winked in the gathering dusk.
Gentle breezes stroked our faces.
Fire walked across the hill.
The headlights, breeze and fire have taken on human qualities.
THE FROWNING CLIFF by Herbert Asquith
• What is the poem about?• You will be covering this in
Geography• What human qualities is the
sea given in this poem?• What human qualities is the
cliff given? • Why does the sea have a
laugh?• Why is the poem called the
frowning cliff?• What is the last stanza
suggesting will happen?
The sea has a laughAnd the cliff a frown;For the laugh of the seaIs wearing him down.
Lipping and lappingFrown as he may,The laughing seaWill eat him away;
Knees and body,And tawny head,He’ll smile at lastOn a golden bed.