Personification or Not? Worksheet Download
This language arts worksheet has students tell personification from literal description. Some sentences give a thing a human action and some describe what it really does, and students write yes or no for each.
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Personification or Not?
Students decide whether each sentence uses personification or describes a thing doing what it really does.
About this worksheet
Students decide whether each sentence uses personification or describes a thing doing what it really does.
Student objectives
- Recognize personification in a sentence
- Tell figurative language from literal language
- Notice when a thing is given a human action
- Read verbs carefully
Everyday practice
- Telling whether a story means the wind really moved or is acting like a person
- Reading weather reports and poems about the same storm
- Writing both a plain and a lively sentence about a sunset
- Noticing personification in commercials