ELA-FigLang-Person-LNF

Sound Devices and Figurative Language - Personification - Print - Literary Nonfiction Resources

 * 3-5**
 * //Brer Rabbit and His Tricks,// by Ennis Rees. 0-929077-00-8. This folktale endows Brer Rabbit, and all of the animals in the story, with numerous human characteristics, including seeking revenge and playing tricks.


 * //"Strange Tree,"// a poem by Elizabeth Madox Roberts, in //Cobwebs, Chatters, and Chills,// by Patricia M. Strickland. 0-7565-0565-8. This book features poem that use figurative language, including this poem that highlights personification - "It looked at me with all its limbs; it looked at me with all its bark." The tree is given the human characteristic of sight - to look at someone.


 * //A Seed is Sleepy,// by Dianna Hutts Aston. 978-0-8118-5520-4. This resource uses poetic language, including personification - endowing the seeds with human characteristics, sleepy, secretive, etc, but also includes ample facts and information about seeds.


 * "//Gargoyles//," a poem by Diane Siebert in //Tour America A Journey Through Poems and Art.// 978-0-8118-5056-8. This poem is one of many that describes landmarks across America and endows them with human characteristics. For example in this poem the gargoyles do the following - "they see Times Suare and Central Park..." "but most of all they hope..."


 * "//What They Said,"// a German nursery rhyme translated by Rose Fyleman, in //Fur, Fangs, and Footprints// by Patricia M. Strickland. 0-7565-0562-3. This book features poem that use figurative language, including this poem that highlights personification as each animal in the poem is able to talk - "I'm too big said the pig."