Analyze sound devices

(personification) in a text heard

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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
The gravy gurgled merrily
As the oil danced in a pan
Oh my dinnertime chorus
What a lovely, lovely clan!
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What are the inanimate objects personified in

the poem?
What specific activities did each inanimate
object do?
What can you say about their activities?
Are these realistic?
Can these inanimate objects really move and
act like humans?
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Task 1. Listen and Jot Down!

Listen as your teacher recites the poem
Bicycling by Alan Loren. As you listen, jot down
all examples of personification from the poem.
Write your answers inside the wheels of the
bicycle below.
 Bicycling
by Alan Loren

Havent you seen, perhaps in a dream?

A bicycle racing next to a stream
Its two tires spinning and hugging the ground
Picking up speed with nary a sound
Its chain sometimes clanks as the tires do churn
The horn announces loudly that soon it would turn
Oh how I love to ride on my bike
But next time I think Ill just go for a hike!
 Trees
by Joyce Kilmer

I think that I shall never see

A poem lovely as a tree.

A tree whose hungry mouth is prest

Against the earths sweet flowing breast;

A tree that looks at God all day,

And lifts her leafy arms to pray;

A tree that may in Summer wear

A nest of robins in her hair;

Upon whose bosom snow has lain;

Who intimately lives with rain.

Poems are made by fools like me,

But only God can make a tree.
Personification is the attribution of human
qualities, nature or characteristics to inanimate
objects or something nonhuman. It is also the
representation of an abstract quality in human
form.
Examples:
"And then one day the boy came back and the tree shook with joy."
(excerpt from The Giving Tree by Shel Silverstein)

The little dog laughed to see such

sport, And the dish ran away with the
spoon.
(nursery rhyme)

The night was creeping on the ground!

She crept and did not make a sound
(excerpt from Check by James Stephens)
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Read the following statements taken from the selection titled Oh No!. Write
Yes on the blank before the number if the sentence shows personification and
write No if it does not.

1. A careless biker drove his bike with a basketful of bread.

2. A colony of hungry ants positioned themselves at the sidewalk.
3. From then on, they patiently gathered mounds of dirt for another ambush.
4. Unknowingly, the biker dropped a bag of bread.
5. The happy ants carried the bag of bread to their place.