Summary
A music video about personification -- giving human actions or feelings to animals, objects, or ideas (the wind whispered, the sun smiled). A memorable hook for figurative-language and poetry lessons.
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Discussion questions
Discussion
Personification lets writers bring objects and ideas to life.
- What does it mean to personify something?
- What are some examples of personification from the song?
- Why might a writer describe the wind or a clock as if it were a person?
Quick work-a-long
Vocabulary: personification, human traits, figurative language.
Try it: Pick an object in the room and write a sentence that gives it a human action or feeling.