Goal: Students can identify personification and determine when to use it in their writing.

"Wind yells while blowing" is an example of personification because wind cannot yell. Only a living thing can yell.

Check to see if you know what personification is. Click on the stanzas that you think are examples of personification. ... I listen to the wind.

She is the goddess of thunder and wind, the personification of the Earth. The thunder spirit Maju is her husband, and the benign spirit Atarrabi and the evil spirit Mikelats are her sons.

A poem about The Wind (personification): The wind runs straight through my hair ... Ha! That wasn't the wind...it was me! ... Personification is a valuable tool for the creative poet. It opens many doors

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the person or thing embodying a quality or the like; an embodiment or incarnation: He is the personification of tact.

As the life of the Holy Prophet Muhammad was a living example to us of godliness (and our Christian brothers and sisters see the life of Jesus as a personification of God's own example),

Formed in Chicago in 1969 by jazz drummer Maurice White, EWF was the personification of White's desire to mix a variety of seemingly incongruent musical styles into a unique, singular sound,

A colloquial example of personification is when one refers to a car as “she.” Another example of personification is “the wind shrieked through the window.”