Personification Examples
Personification Examples
Personification Examples
Personification Examples
Personification Examples
Personification Examples
Personification Examples
6. The sand stretched out its long limbs beside the water’s edge.
Personification Examples
Personification Examples
Personification Examples
9. Cookies and cakes called to him from the display case: “eat us up!”
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10. Her silken dress whispered and sighed as she settled into the chair.
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12. In the early morning light, time was patient with the new mother and her child.
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13. His voice filled up the house like an army of soldiers sent to attack.
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Personification Examples
15. The car horn squealed to alert us that they’d finally arrived.
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1. “These are the lips of the lake, on which no beard grows. It licks its chops from
time to time.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Personification Examples
4. “When it comes, the landscape listens, / Shadows hold their breath,” – Emily
Dickinson
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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
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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
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7. “Five-fingered ferns hung over the water and dropped spray from their
fingertips.” – John Steinbeck
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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
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9. “Is love a tender thing? It is too rough, too rude, too boisterous, and it pricks
like thorn.” William Shakespeare
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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
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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
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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
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Personification Examples
14. “Even the dirt kept breathing a small breath.” – Theodore Roethke
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15. “The shattered water made a misty din. Great waves looked over others
coming in.” – Robert Frost