Tuesday, December 3, 2013

Personification



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

39 comments:

  1. PERSONIFICATION
    "The Weight of Water"
    "When suddenly she sees my joy/My win/And her power dissolves" (Crossan 199).

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  2. "I drink the water, the fizzy bubbles skipping across my tongue" (Schroeder 20).
    -The Day Before

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  3. "I drink the water, the fizzy bubbles skipping across my tongue" (Schroeder 20).
    -The Day Before

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  4. She danced on her back legs so i could give her a bone. (LeZotte 4)

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  5. The breeze blows, ruffling the grass.

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  6. ¨Seagulls circle overhead, chattering¨ (Bryant 34).

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  7. "The breeze blows, ruffling the grass." Pg. 179

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  8. She was a dancing daisy swaying in the wind

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  9. May B.
    " I dread the blackness growing stronger outside" (Rose 66).

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  10. personification: “What you liked to do best was dance your pencil across a blank page and make something come alive” (Bryant 23). She is talking about how when her mother drew that the pencils appeared to be dancing across the page, creating anything she wanted to.

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  11. personification: “What you liked to do best was dance your pencil across a blank page and make something come alive” (Bryant 23). She is talking about how when her mother drew that the pencils appeared to be dancing across the page, creating anything she wanted to.

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  12. "...she holds herself so elegantly, as if a spotlight follows her every move" (Zimmer 4).

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  13. "I was a happy little girl wearing a pink dress, sitting in our gold minivan, dancing with my doll, Kamara" (Frost 3). Wren gave a human trait ( a name) to a non-human, non-living object: the doll.

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  14. “...considering that I’ve been kidnapped by this monstrous steel pterodactyl…” (Sones, 1)

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  15. "stale house breathing" (Darrow 24).

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  16. “The rhythm of the rim” (Glenn 34)

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  17. "There were no tracks climbing" (Myers 27) tracks cant climb

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  18. “Sometimes he missed, and the ground way back against the hill ruptured as if a ghost were slamming his fist into the hard earth” (page 103).

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  19. "... and have all the animals and the plants think about what they did last times and plan for the next times" (Hesse,96)

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  20. “...but only hearing the sound of the
    wind,
    wind,
    wind,
    shrieking through
    the nursery window” (Bryant 88).

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  21. "The angles on her scrapbook pages are coming alive?"(Wolff 122)

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  22. Personification
    I love my thesaurus. I like to think about all those words in there, cuddling up together or arguing. This was from page 4.

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  23. An example is that Ava says lemons are lucsious and delishous like kisses -Jessi Davis

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  24. "no offense, Dr. Bones," Eve says,"but you are having a seriously bad hair day." (Sones 115)

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  25. Hunter McCollum ASLA GriffinDecember 8, 2013 at 12:46 PM

    "big drops of saliva hit my arm" Brown 11. The saliva isn't actually smacking her arm its just falling from the dogs mouth onto her arm.

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  26. Here, Ruby is describing why she used to love the rain.
    “The way it painted, the streets, with glistening neon light” (Sones 208).

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  27. "Red shaky Jell-O salad..."(Wolff 157)

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  28. The screaming and the roar of the fire ... Page 44

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  29. "the fragrant white flowers my Rosa calls Cinderella" (Engle 35).

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  30. "In choking mist, and whaling dust"(Burg 2).

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  31. "...he's got a rifle for an arm" (Fehler 15). I wasn't sure if this would work so here is another example. "It was a fluke. the ball running away form Dawkins like that" (Fehler 30).

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  32. The closest example of personification in my book was, "...she [the cat] looks like she's sitting like a regular person" (Roth 212).

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  33. "Sometimes the wind says my name. It whispers, Maya" (Ostlere 67).

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  34. my stomach growels at me
    page 23

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  35. Personification:” After I was all better, my mom and dad and I had a funeral for my arm”. (Bingham 22) You hold funerals for loved ones (people) who have passed away. They gave her arm a funeral like they would a person.


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  36. "I wonder if the tree is sad that its here instead of the in the middle of the forest" (Mass145)

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  37. "...what you liked to do best was dance your pencil across a blank page" (Bryant pg.23)

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  38. I twist the ball in my glove, pull back my right arm, and let the ball fly (Burg 72).

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  39. A example of personification from Shark Girl Is " I listen to the rain pounding on my roof" Pg 197
    This is personification because it gives rain the human trait of pounding.

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