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Personification Writing Practice

Personification gives a human action, feeling or thought to something that is not human. For example: “The wind whispered through the flax.” Read each task carefully, then try some imaginative ideas of your own.

Spot the human action

Look for an action or feeling that belongs to a person.

1.Which sentence gives the wind a human action?

The wind blew leaves across the path.
The wind whispered a secret to the trees.
The wind was cold today.

2.In “The sleepy sun stretched over the hills”, what human action does the sun do?

3.Read each sentence. Write P beside the sentences that use personification and N beside the ones that do not: (a) The waves danced along the shore. (b) A kiwi hid beneath the fern. (c) The old gate groaned when it opened. (d) The pōhutukawa has red flowers.

4.Complete the sentence with a human action: “The rain on the tin roof all night.”

Build a vivid sentence

Choose lively verbs and imagine how a non-human thing might act or feel if it were a person.

5.Match each thing to a human action that could create personification.

The moon
The stream
The mountain

hurried
smiled
stood watch

6.Rewrite this plain sentence using personification: “The leaves moved in the breeze.”

7.True or false? “The angry clouds marched across the sky” uses personification.

TrueFalse

8.Write one personification sentence about an object you might take on a New Zealand walk, such as a water bottle, backpack or torch.

Write a tiny nature story

Use personification to help your reader picture the scene.

9.Write a short story of 3–4 sentences about a windy day at the beach. Include at least two examples of personification. Underline your personification phrases.