TeacherofLiteracy com Poetry Resources Personification Personification Todays Objectives
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Teacher-of-Literacy. com Poetry Resources Personification
![Personification Today’s Objectives: • To recognise and understand the purpose of a poet’ use Personification Today’s Objectives: • To recognise and understand the purpose of a poet’ use](http://slidetodoc.com/presentation_image/023a7708e06a9dedb68f8b89c197a602/image-2.jpg)
Personification Today’s Objectives: • To recognise and understand the purpose of a poet’ use of personification.
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![Where does the word come from? Answer The root word in personification is person Where does the word come from? Answer The root word in personification is person](http://slidetodoc.com/presentation_image/023a7708e06a9dedb68f8b89c197a602/image-4.jpg)
Where does the word come from? Answer The root word in personification is person (human). Definition Personification is the use of human traits to represent animals, objects, events, and ideas.
![How does this work? What are some human traits and activities? Where have you How does this work? What are some human traits and activities? Where have you](http://slidetodoc.com/presentation_image/023a7708e06a9dedb68f8b89c197a602/image-5.jpg)
How does this work? What are some human traits and activities? Where have you seen animals (real or imaginary) exhibiting these traits and taking part in these activities?
![Where have you seen animals that exhibit human traits? • Television – Cartoons – Where have you seen animals that exhibit human traits? • Television – Cartoons –](http://slidetodoc.com/presentation_image/023a7708e06a9dedb68f8b89c197a602/image-6.jpg)
Where have you seen animals that exhibit human traits? • Television – Cartoons – Commercials • Movies • Stories – Fables – Fairy Tales – Novels
![EXAMPLES The flowers danced in the wind. The friendly gates welcomed us. The Earth EXAMPLES The flowers danced in the wind. The friendly gates welcomed us. The Earth](http://slidetodoc.com/presentation_image/023a7708e06a9dedb68f8b89c197a602/image-7.jpg)
EXAMPLES The flowers danced in the wind. The friendly gates welcomed us. The Earth coughed and choked in all of the pollution.
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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.
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THE FROWNING CLIFF by Herbert Asquith The sea has a laugh And the cliff a frown; For the laugh of the sea Is wearing him down. Lipping and lapping Frown as he may, The laughing sea Will eat him away; Knees and body, And tawny head, He’ll smile at last On a golden bed. • 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?
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