Understanding Personification
A worksheet to help second graders understand and identify personification in sentences and stories.
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Understanding Personification
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Read each section carefully and answer the questions. Personification is when you give human qualities or actions to something that is not human, like an animal or an object.
What is Personification?
Personification is a special way to describe things. It means giving human actions or feelings to animals or objects. For example, 'The wind whispered secrets' makes the wind sound like a person talking.
Read each sentence. Which sentence shows personification?
1.
The bird sang a sweet song.
The sun smiled down on us.
The car drove fast.
The flower is red.
2.
The clock ran out of time.
The boy ran fast.
The puppy played with a ball.
The apple is red.
Complete each sentence by adding a personification. Choose a human action for the object.
3. The stars in the night sky.
4. The tree's branches in the wind.
5. The fire in the fireplace.
6. Write your own sentence using personification. Give a human action to an animal or object.
Read each sentence. Is it an example of personification? Circle True or False.
7. The moon peeked from behind the clouds.
True
False
8. The dog barked loudly.
True
False
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