How is personification used in descriptive writing?

It makes a setting feel alive. In The House on Alder Street, the gate groans, the windows stare and the chimney whistles a lonely tune.

Do students write personification?

Yes. Find and Explain Personification ends with 2 sentences of their own, each with a different object.

6th Grade Personification Worksheets

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Written by Adi Ackerman, Head Teacher

Personification gives human actions or feelings to something that is not human. This subtopic holds 2 sheets for 6th grade, each with an answer key. Personification in Descriptive Writing finds 6 examples in The House on Alder Street, and Find and Explain Personification marks 12 sentences like The kettle sang on the stove. The sheets support CCSS L.6.5.A.

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Find and Explain Personification

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Personification in Descriptive Writing

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Frequently Asked Questions

The wind whispered through the tall pine trees is personification, because wind cannot whisper. Find and Explain Personification has 12 sentences like it.

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