Personification Worksheets

Related ELA Standard: L.6.5.A

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Personification is used by authors to assign human-like qualities to things that aren’t human and in many cases, not even living. Writers like to use this technique to help the reader relate better to what they are explaining or to help the reader understand complex concepts a little better. The next time you see this technique used you will understand why the author used this literary device. Young writers often overlook the importance of the use of this literary device. It can really help your readers form an emotional connection with things and add a heightened value to your overall story for your audience. These worksheets will help students begin to spot and use personification in their own writing pieces.

Personification Worksheets To Print:

Can You Find the Personified Sentences? - We breakdown sentences to see what sense we can make of them.

Making Sentences Personified - You need to run some sentence rewrites here. The first one has been done for you as an example. Multiple answers are possible. Feel free to change or add words, but try to keep the sentence's original meaning.

Personification: Group Activity - You will need a few partners for this one. Write two objects on the first two lines. Have your partner write down 3 human traits that might describe the objects you wrote down.

Fill-in-the-Blank Personification - There is a huge hole in some of these sentences. Let's make it work.

Waking up on the Farm - You'll need a red pen for this. You will need to provide an explanation at times here.

Creative Uses of Personification - Using the given object and verb, create a sentence that uses personification.

Matching It with Meaning - Write the letter of the meaning of the underlined word in each sentence.

Identifying Personification - Where do you see it used in the sentences and where do you not?

Make Your Own Story - Using the objects or animals in the first box and the human qualities (traits and actions) in the second box, create a short story with at least 5 sentences.

Personification Checklist - Put an "X" next to each sentence that uses this device. Which one jumps to life for you and which do not?

Explaining Personification - Find a famous literary passage that uses several examples of this technique or combine several quotes from a book .

Personified Nature - Underline the object or thing being personified. Explain what it means and how to adapt this technique to your own writing.

Personification Biographies - Using the objects given, write a small 3-4-sentence biography for each object as if it was human.

Objects with Personalities! - Under each sentence, write what is being personified and what human trait the object is given or what human action the object is doing.

Write & Personify - Write a short 5-sentence story about an animal. Describe and write about what the animal normally does and how it normally acts.

More Related Worksheet Topic:

Personification In Context - What situation does it fulfill? What do you do with it from here? This really helps you become a better writer and connect with your readers.

How to Identify and Use Personification


Personification adds a much needed, in some case, profound way of describing non-living things. The most common way personification is used in written work is through emotional words and body parts. For example an author might see an opportunity to describe a handle on a tractor trailer door as a human hand-like or even a foot-like. No, tractor trailers do not have hands or feet, but you do instantly get a sense of the size and the shape of those there handles. I think the best use of personification I read recently came from the sports section about a baseball game. The writer said that the puck (hockey game) took a joyous leap across the goal line. The writer brought the hard rubber puck to life, obviously this piece was written for fans of the team that scored the goal. If it were written for fans of the losing team, I would suppose the author might use the words "deeply saddened spin" to describe the pucks movement.


Personification is often used in poetry to make things come to life. It is rarely used in an essay or report of any kind. In most cases it is used to decorate the words or actions of the subjects. This literary device is most often used to add humor and emotion to any written piece.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 



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