Monday, April 9, 2007

Personification Examples

Class Personification Exercise:

a. The trees swayed/embraced/danced/whispered in the moonlight.

b. The clouds glowered menacingly in the rainstorm.

c. The latch bit his finger with metal teeth.

d. The house stared down at her with empty glass eyes.

More examples:

a. The driver started the engine with some difficulty.
--> The car engine coughed and sputtered when it started during the blizzard.

b. The driver drove the car quickly down the hill.
--> The car roared to life and raced down the hill.

c. The tourists walked past a field of beautiful yellow daffodils.
--> The daffodils nodded their yellow heads at the tourists.

d. The wind blew and the leaves fell.
--> The wing sang her mournful song through the falling leaves.