"There is one memory that floods my brain every five minutes." I Heart You, You Haunt Me by Lisa Schroeder (Pg 8, chapter I will always remember, page 1 of 2
An example of personification I found is "How come I keep hearing the screaming screech of his tires?" One of Those Hideous Books Where the Mother Dies page 241
" a small shiny brown seed, tear shapped and elegant, both old and new, silent and full of secrets." Seeds can't really be full of secrets, and they dont have a choice to be silent or loud, because they can't talk. Heartbeat, page 180.
"We left before the sun even peeked its head out from underneath the cover." Far from You by Lisa Schroeder- page 168
ReplyDeleteAn example of personification from my novel, Summerhouse Time, is "My mothers's words fall on my ears."
ReplyDeletethis is on page 204
DeleteI also found on page 21 a good example of personification, it is "This equation bounces against my brain. And sneers at all attempted answers.
ReplyDeleteAn example of personification is on page 59 in Wicked Girls. "I am an evergreen I think. I tell him I don't shed my leaves, well, not today."
ReplyDeleteNever mind the murdering sun. On page 18
ReplyDelete"A whole life-time of plans swallowed up by the night in a matter of seconds", Three Rivers Rising by James Richard-page 84.
ReplyDelete"The smell I meat load mingled with the cigar smoke and coffee" Ringside 1925 by Jen Bryant - Pg. 70
ReplyDeleteAn example of personification from Tricks by Ellen Hopkins is "an anxious hiccuping of humming bird wings."
ReplyDelete"...my jaw was all locked up." The Trial by Jen Bryant- Pg. 103
ReplyDelete"The moon in this place is wearing a pale, thin dress." -Under the Mesquite by Guadalupe Garcia McCall p. 144
ReplyDeleteThe Octomabots, they too could surmise,
ReplyDeletewith ominous gleam in their ominous eyes.
Page 229 of Zorgamazoo
The coffee maker gurgles and spits
ReplyDeleteChasing Brooklyn, pg 149
"Mom is a rock too, the kind that crumbles if you hold on too tight."
ReplyDeleteHugging the Rock by Susan Taylor Brown pg.23
"but the numbers on the page keep scrambling..." page 82
ReplyDelete"It felt as if it was staring right through me." Pg. 126
ReplyDelete"My mind raced after the thought of breaking up with her."page 209-What My Girlfriend Doesnt Know.
ReplyDeletePage 29 of T4 by Ann Clare LeZotte "That was the night terror came into our home."
ReplyDelete"She would fall into a hole and be swallowed by the Earth"- Sweetgrass basket page 56
ReplyDeleteThe Earth could not actually swallow her.
"Everyone, everything, grateful for this moment,free of the weight of the dust." Out of the Dust by Karen Hesse. Pg.106
ReplyDelete"nothing standing between her and the teeth of winter"- Witness page 11.
ReplyDelete"There is one memory that floods my brain every five minutes." I Heart You, You Haunt Me by Lisa Schroeder
ReplyDelete(Pg 8, chapter I will always remember, page 1 of 2
"Brain Frozen" - hate that Cat Pg.13
ReplyDelete" The house looked brown,shabby and mean..." This is an example of personification that I found on page 16.
ReplyDelete"the baseball ran to me"- pg 29
ReplyDelete"the first few minutes do seem to spin in slow motion" pg.64
ReplyDelete"Stretch the hour along your arm" After the Kiss by Terra Elan McVoy - page 119
ReplyDeleteAn example of personification I found is "How come I keep hearing the screaming screech of his tires?" One of Those Hideous Books Where the Mother Dies page 241
ReplyDelete"I'd tell you about that mountain top jutting." Orchards by Holly Thompson- page 72
ReplyDelete"I had to see my teacher start / that steady ticking like a heart." Page 78
ReplyDeleteThis is also a simile, but it's personifying a metronome.
"The door from the house flew open." Hidden by Helen Frost on page 15
ReplyDelete" The letters will jumble and spill off the page, leaping and hopping" Page 5 in " The Wild Book" by Margarita Engle
ReplyDelete"She fills my room with the smell of summer," All the Broken Pieces - Pg 11
ReplyDelete" a small shiny brown seed, tear shapped and elegant, both old and new, silent and full of secrets." Seeds can't really be full of secrets, and they dont have a choice to be silent or loud, because they can't talk. Heartbeat, page 180.
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