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Personification Examples

The document provides 15 examples of personification from literature and other sources. Personification involves attributing human characteristics such as emotions, actions, or sensory experiences to non-human things such as objects, animals, forces of nature, or abstract concepts. Examples include describing stars winking, flames devouring a house, books murmuring stories, and time being patient.

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Personification Examples

The document provides 15 examples of personification from literature and other sources. Personification involves attributing human characteristics such as emotions, actions, or sensory experiences to non-human things such as objects, animals, forces of nature, or abstract concepts. Examples include describing stars winking, flames devouring a house, books murmuring stories, and time being patient.

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Personification Examples

1. The stars winked at each other in the dark.

Personification Examples

2. Flames surrounded the house, licking and devouring it whole.

Personification Examples

3. The books murmured their stories from her shelf.

Personification Examples

4. Every photo in the album hides a secret.

Personification Examples

5. The cat glared at the new kitten like a jealous girlfriend.

Personification Examples

6. The sand stretched out its long limbs beside the water’s edge.

Personification Examples

7. Crouching low, the old cottage looked bent to its knees.

Personification Examples

8. The sky wept tears of joy.

Personification Examples

9. Cookies and cakes called to him from the display case: “eat us up!”

Personification Examples

10. Her silken dress whispered and sighed as she settled into the chair.

Personification Examples

11. The skyscrapers punched the blue sky.

Personification Examples

12. In the early morning light, time was patient with the new mother and her child.

Personification Examples
13. His voice filled up the house like an army of soldiers sent to attack.

Personification Examples

14. My dog studied the grass as if he was an architect preparing blueprints.

Personification Examples

15. The car horn squealed to alert us that they’d finally arrived.

Personification Examples from Literature


The following examples are all quoted from various works of literature, including
poems, plays, stories, and novels.

Personification Examples

1. “These are the lips of the lake, on which no beard grows. It licks its chops from
time to time.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

Personification Examples

2. “The fog comes / on little cat feet.” – Carl Sandburg

Personification Examples

3. “April is the cruelest month.” – T.S. Eliot

Personification Examples

4. “When it comes, the landscape listens, / Shadows hold their breath,” – Emily
Dickinson

Personification Examples

5. “‘Ah, William, we’re weary of weather, / said the sunflowers, shining with dew.
/ Our traveling habits have tired us. / Can you give us a room with a view?” –
William Blake

Personification Examples

6. “The woods are getting ready to sleep—they are not yet asleep but they are
disrobing and are having all sorts of little bed-time conferences and
whisperings and good-nights.” – L.M. Montgomery

Personification Examples
7. “Five-fingered ferns hung over the water and dropped spray from their
fingertips.” – John Steinbeck

Personification Examples

8. “Hadn’t she known that something good was going to happen to her that
morning–hadn’t she felt it in every touch of the sunshine, as its golden finger-
tips pressed her lids open and wound their way through her hair?” – Edith
Wharton

Personification Examples

9. “Is love a tender thing? It is too rough, too rude, too boisterous, and it pricks
like thorn.” William Shakespeare

Personification Examples

10. “Pink is what red looks like when it kicks off its shoes and lets its hair down.
Pink is the boudoir color, the cherubic color, the color of Heaven’s gates. . . .
Pink is as laid back as beige, but while beige is dull and bland, pink is laid back
with attitude.” – Tom Robbins

Personification Examples

11. “The teapot sang as the water boiled, / The ice cubes cackled in their glass, /
The teacups chattered to one another, / While the chairs were passing gas.”
Sharon Hendricks

Personification Examples

12. “The glacier knocks in the cupboard, / The desert sighs in the bed, / And the
crack in the tea-cup opens / A lane to the land of the dead.” – W.H. Auden

Personification Examples

13. “I am silver and exact. I have no preconceptions. / Whatever I see, I swallow


immediately. / Just as it is, unmisted by love or dislike / I am not cruel, only
truthful –” – Sylvia Plath

Personification Examples

14. “Even the dirt kept breathing a small breath.” – Theodore Roethke

Personification Examples

15. “The shattered water made a misty din. Great waves looked over others
coming in.” – Robert Frost

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