Monday, December 6, 2010

Personification

Please post an example of personification from your poetry novel. Include the page number.

31 comments:

  1. The profiles of islands and tree-covered mountainschew jagged bites out of the horizon.
    Pg.44

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  2. "we won't break the night's silence" page 71 Trash.

    night; silence

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  3. "we won't break the night's silence" page 71 Trash.

    night; silence

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  4. An example of personification would be, "The clock reads," because a clock can not actually read. the page number would be 153.

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  5. An example of personification would be when Jane gets her fake arm to replace her real one and she names it chuck. This example is on page 125.

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  6. An example of personification would be "The ground feels as though it bends beneath me." Pg. 175

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  7. "send his rich voice soaring"
    Page 13

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  8. "Hearing people laugh because the sound of it is rolling and free and full."
    page 34
    laughter rolling

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  9. Personification
    "Three keys came to me"
    pg 139 Witness

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  10. An example of personification is when Jack goes to the animal shelter and says the dogs looked like they were saying "Me! Me! Choose me! I'm the best one!"
    Page 26 of Love That Dog

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  11. "A backyard full of empty beer bottles to measure Mr. Kerry's life."
    pg. 87 in By the River

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  12. "Tropical Secrets"
    Personification- page 96

    "Trees lift the sidewalks, vines swallow buildings,"

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  13. a pair of marble angels flew
    page 72

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  14. "Fortified by five of Robinson's cherry cokes."
    Page 101

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  15. "Rhythm strong enough to
    push her far into the night"

    Pg. 56 in "Street Love"

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  16. "The wind tossing his blonde curls everywhere." ON page 39.

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  17. " This whole book's a poem 'cause every time I try to tell the whole story my mind goes Be quiet!"


    Locomotion pg 1

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  18. "My thoughts splintered and my insides shattered..."
    Page 131 in Reaching For Sun

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  19. "...brown seed, tear shaped, both old and new..."
    Page 180

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  20. "skip in his heart"
    pg 6

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  21. "...When the seas get rough."
    page 53

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  22. An example of personification would be when Wolf, Silver and Tawny reunite with Mother. The book says they were "a happy tangle of bodies".

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  23. "grief can just loiter by the water fountain in his big, stupid shroud."
    page 25

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  24. Page 8 of the book "Jude"

    "They said the city was swarming with infectious disease...."

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  25. Pen in hand, pawing pg. 194

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  26. His words sort of pourd over me. pg 80

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  27. "Till the only sound i can hear
    Is the whispering of our fingers."

    page 7

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  28. "the can is spinning around forever and lands half way between me and haley" the can isn't really spinning forever,and it cant spin around by itself.
    page- 155

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  29. "Watching the dead tree's dance"
    Page 17 Bronx Masquerade

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  30. "....the dark stains splattered across the sidewalk

    they pause to read the note"
    pg.245
    "one of those hideous books where the mother dies"
    i think it means that everything just stops when she sees the note

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  31. "I feel tears welling up, then I smash them down."

    pg. 114

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