Tuesday, April 19, 2011

PERSONIFICATION connects with us!

Definition:
 
When an author uses human actions on an object, uses human feelings on an object, describing the object's mood and telling it what to do.

Example:
  • The rabbit weep into its Mother's fluffy, stained chest. He sobbed and sobbed and sobbed, first his Father, then his Brother, now his last family member, how could the giant creatures do this to his family? His tears kept falling down his furry cheeks, the salty drops of water stained the fur.
Why is it important in Language Arts?

Personification is using a character to represent a new abstract idea. Abstract ideas are hard for a lot of people to understand, since you cannot imagine them, see them, hear them or touch them! Using personification in an animal or object character helps us understand them much easier and faster that way!

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