Personification

__**Personification**__ is giving human traits (qualities, feelings, action, or characteristics) to non-living objects (things, colors, qualities, or ideas). For example: The window winked at me. The verb, wink, is a human action. A window is a non-living object.

Definition: when you make a thing, idea, or an animal do something only humans can do. || **"Wind yells while blowing"**
 * Personification
 * Example

"Wind yells while blowing" is an example of personification because wind cannot yell. Only a living thing can yell. ||
 * [[image:http://library.thinkquest.org/J0112392/images/necklass.gif width="143" height="83"]]

**Necklace is a friend**

"Necklace is a friend" is an example of personification because Necklace is a thing, and necklaces cannot be friends. Only living things can have friends. ||
 * [[image:http://library.thinkquest.org/J0112392/images/snowflake.gif width="100" height="100"]] |||| **SNOW**

Snow speaks to the people its

falling above in the glooming

sunlight. Its white sparkling voice

echoes

as it falls through

the air. ||





it's hard to imagine what advertising would be like //without// the figure of personification. Here's just a small sample of the countless popular slogans (or "taglines") that rely on personification to market products ranging from toilet paper to life insurance.

> (Kleenex facial tissues)
 * Kleenex says bless you.

> (Huggies Supreme diapers)
 * Nothing hugs like Huggies.

> (Little Debbie snack cakes)
 * Unwrap a smile.

> (Goldfish snack crackers)
 * Goldfish. The snack that smiles back.

> (Carvel ice cream)
 * Carvel. It's what happy tastes like.

> (Cottonelle toilet paper)
 * Cottonelle. Looking out for the family.

> (Bouquets toilet paper, Australia)
 * The toilet tissue that really cares for Downunder.

> (Allstate Insurance Company)
 * You're in good hands with Allstate.

> (Indesit washing machine and Ariel Liquitabs, laundry detergent, UK)
 * What do you feed a machine with an appetite this big?

> (Chevrolet cars)
 * The heartbeat of America.

> (Kia cars)
 * The car that cares

> (Acer computers)
 * Acer. We hear you.

On your own paper, write the object being personified and the meaning of the personification.
 * 1) The wind sang her mournful song through the falling leaves.
 * 2) The microwave timer told me it was time to turn my TV dinner.
 * 3) The video camera observed the whole scene.
 * 4) The strawberries seemed to sing, "Eat me first!"
 * 5) The rain kissed my cheeks as it fell.
 * 6) The daffodils nodded their yellow heads at the walkers.
 * 7) The water beckoned invitingly to the hot swimmers.
 * 8) The snow whispered as it fell to the ground during the early morning hours.
 * 9) The china danced on the shelves during the earthquake.
 * 10) The car engine coughed and sputtered when it started during the blizzard.