1. FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE
Personification

3. Personification!

4. Personification!
Giving an inanimate object or concept a
human attribute

5. Personification!
Giving an inanimate object or concept a
human attribute
The mall was calling out to me.

6. Personification!
Giving an inanimate object or concept a
human attribute
The mall was calling out to me.

7. Personification!
Giving an inanimate object or concept a
human attribute
The mall was calling out to me.

8. Personification!
Giving an inanimate object or concept a
human attribute
The mall was calling out to me.

9. Personification!
Giving an inanimate object or concept a
human attribute
The mall was calling out to me.

10. Personification!
Giving an inanimate object or concept a
human attribute
The mall was calling out to me.

11. Personification!
Giving an inanimate object or concept a
human attribute
The mall was calling out to me.

12. Personification!
Giving an inanimate object or concept a
human attribute
The mall was calling out to me.

13. Personification!
Giving an inanimate object or concept a
human attribute
The mall was calling out to me.

14. Personification!

15. Personification!
Time stole my youth away.

16. Personification!
Time stole my youth away.
Money doesn’t grow on trees.

17. Why use personification?

18. Why use personification?
To exaggerate and emphasize a point

19. Why use personification?
To exaggerate and emphasize a point
ASK: What point exactly is the poet/writer
trying to emphasize?

20. Why use personification?
To exaggerate and emphasize a point
ASK: What point exactly is the poet/writer
trying to emphasize?
The mall is calling out to me

21. Why use personification?
To exaggerate and emphasize a point
ASK: What point exactly is the poet/writer
trying to emphasize?
The mall is calling out to me
The mall is given human attribute of
‘calling’ out to the narrator, making it
hard to deny the mall.

22. Why use personification?
To exaggerate and emphasize a point
ASK: What point exactly is the poet/writer
trying to emphasize?
The mall is calling out to me
The mall is given human attribute of
‘calling’ out to the narrator, making it
hard to deny the mall.
The narrator can’t help himself but
wants to go to the mall.

23. How to analyze?

24. How to analyze?
Highlight areas of comparisons

25. How to analyze?
Highlight areas of comparisons
Identify the abstract quality and the
human attribute.

26. How to analyze?
Highlight areas of comparisons
Identify the abstract quality and the
human attribute.
Phrase in the following manner:

27. How to analyze?
Highlight areas of comparisons
Identify the abstract quality and the
human attribute.
Phrase in the following manner:
(Concept/inanimate object) is being
compared to (human attribute).

28. How to analyze?
Highlight areas of comparisons
Identify the abstract quality and the
human attribute.
Phrase in the following manner:
(Concept/inanimate object) is being
compared to (human attribute).
Explain the literal & Implied meaning.

29. Practice

30. Practice
Practice analyzing the personifications
used in these examples

31. Practice
Practice analyzing the personifications
used in these examples
Pair work

32. Practice
Practice analyzing the personifications
used in these examples
Pair work
Identify comparison, phrase the
comparison, explain the literal &
implied meaning of each one used.

34. Application

35. Application
Pg 79 Text B
Unpack the poem
4-step analysis of poetic devices used
Analyze the use of figurative languages
used and show how the writer extends the
metaphor - What does the poet imply about
death?