Personification Practice Worksheet
A Grade 5 ELA worksheet focusing on identifying and creating personification in sentences and short passages.
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Personification is a figure of speech where human qualities or actions are given to inanimate objects or animals. Read each section carefully and answer the questions.
1. Which sentence uses personification?
The cat purred loudly.
The trees danced in the wind.
The sun is a giant ball of fire.
The boy ran very fast.
2. In the sentence, 'The wind whispered secrets through the leaves,' what is being personified?
The secrets
The leaves
The wind
The sentence
Fill in the blank with a human action to create personification.
1. The alarm clock at 6:00 AM.
2. The old house in the storm.
3. The stars in the night sky.
Write two sentences using personification. Underline the object being personified and circle the human action.
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2.
Read each sentence. If it uses personification, mark True. If not, mark False.
1. The sun smiled down on the picnic.
True
False
2. My dog barked at the mailman.
True
False