Personification in The Pearl

•Personification Definition

•Giving human traits (qualities, feelings, characteristics, or actions) to non-living objects.

•Example:  The rain kissed my cheeks as it fell.

•Personification Activity:

•Find four examples of personification.

•Fold your white paper in fourths.

•At the bottom of each box, write examples (with page #s) that you find.  One can be from the class examples below.  Use quotations marks and copy the words very carefully.

•Highlight the human quality being showcased by drawing a literal picture of the quotation, for example, a frowning mountain.  Use color and show neatness in your final product.

• You are welcome to use one of the following examples, then find the other three on your own:
1.  Example 1:  "The wind cried and whisked in the brush, and the family went on monotonously, hour after hour.
2.  Example 2:  "High in the gray stone mountains, under a frowning peak, a little spring bubbled. . ."
3.  Example 3:  There wasn't much left of it [the water] anyway, for every time it fell over an escarpment the thirsty air drank it . . . "
4.  Example 4:  "The coyotes cried and laughed in the brush."
5.  Example 5:  "The high sun streamed down on the dry creaking earth so that the vegetation ticked in protest."