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Grades 9 and 10 - English Language - High School - Personification
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Personification is when writers give human characteristics to objects, ideas or animals. It is used so frequently, especially in poetry, that it can be hard to spot at times. The wind, for example, is often described as having a human voice - it howls, or whispers, or even shouts. Personification is one of many methods writers have for writing vividly and for engaging their readers' senses.

Grades 9 and 10 - English Language - High School - Personification
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10 Questions

1. Find the example of personification in the following quotation.
From 'Asleep', by Wilfred Owen
2. Find the example of personification in the following quotation.
From 'April Rain Song', by Langston Hughes:
3. Find the example of personification in the following quotation.
From 'On the Dark Height of Jura', by Percy Bysshe Shelley:
4. Find the example of personification in the following quotation.
From 'De Profundis', by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
5. Find the example of personification in the following quotation.
From To Kill a Mockingbird, by Harper Lee:
6. Find the example of personification in the following quotation.
From a film review, by Stella Papamichael, of Ocean's Twelve:
7. Find the example of personification in the following quotation.
From 'Chain of Pearls', by Rabindranath Tagore:
8. Find the example of personification in the following quotation.
From 'De Profundis', by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
9. Find the example of personification in the following quotation.
From To Kill a Mockingbird, by Harper Lee:
10. Find the example of personification in the following quotation.
From 'Asleep', by Wilfred Owen