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I have to write a personification poem and i dont know how to get started?

has to have different ways of real life stuff but not real to give it away


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Writing: Personification
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Title: Writing: Personification
Description: These sites explain how to use personification to improve your writing. Includes definitions, numerous examples, and classroom activity ideas. There are also links to three eThemes Resources on other types of figurative language.
Grade Level: 4, 5, 6, 7, 8
Resource Links: Scholastic: Personification
This two page PDF file is a lesson plan on personification.

Personification Lesson Plans
There are several sample personification lesson plans.

Photoshop Personification Poem
This lesson plan by Adobe challenges students to create a digital photograph and poem on personification.

Lesson Seven
Read the definition and then try to complete the worksheet.

ABCTeach: Personification
Includes a definition, examples and some exercises.

What Is Personification
Learn a little about leaves and write a story using personification. This activity encourages the use of graphic organizers.

Searching for Images in Poetry
This three-page pdf file has an activity that challenges students to find examples of metaphors, similes, and personification in poems.

Year 6 Literacy
Try to put some statements into a personification form. This is a pdf document.

Personification Activities
Read the definition and then try some student activities.

"Summer Grass" by Carl Sandburg
Review personification and complete the activity.

SuccessLink: Personification Project
This lesson plan on personification includes handouts.

eThemes Resource: Writing: Alliteration, Idioms, and Hyperbole
Learn how to use different types of figurative language to improve your descriptive writing. Includes definitions and many classroom activity ideas for each topic. There are links to eThemes Resources on personification, and similes and metaphors.

eThemes Resource: Writing: Similes and Metaphors
These sites explain how to use similes and metaphors to improve your writing. There are many examples plus interactive quizzes and classroom activity ideas.

eThemes: Poetry: Simile and Figurative Language
These sites contain poems about autumn, winter, and the seasonal holidays. Learn how simile and figurative language can be used in poetry. Includes worksheets and in class activities. Includes links to eThemes Resources on similes, personification, metaphors, alliteration, idioms, and hyperbole.


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