ELA-FigLang-Person-IT

Sound Devices and Figurative Language - Personification - Print - Information Text

 * 3-5**
 * //"////Strange Tree,"// a poem by Elizabeth Madox Roberts in //Cobwebs, Chatters, and Chills// by Patricia M. Strickland. 0-7565-0565. This book features poem that use figurative language, including this poem that highlights personification - "It looked at me with all its bark." The tree is given the human characteristic of sight - to look at someone. This book also includes explanations of different types of figurative language and sound devices used in poetry.
 * //"Mount Washington"//, a poem by Diane Siebert in //Tour America A Journey Through Poems and Art.// 978-0-8118-5056-8. This journey presents many poems with numerous example of figurative language, including personification -"its smile and turn to sudden screams..." The book also has fact boxes on each page. AN ELA/Social Studies connection.
 * //"School Bus"// by Lee Bennett Hopkins, a poem in //Recess, Rhyme and Reason// by Patricia M. Stockland. 0-7565-0564-X. The poem gives a human charactristic to a bus - "this wide awake freshly-painted-yellow school bus. This book also includes explanations of different types of figurative langauge and sound devices used in poetry.
 *  //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. An ELA/Science connection.
 * //"USS Constitution,"// a poem by Diane Siebert in //Tour America A Journey Through Poems and Art.// 978-0-8118-5056-8. This poem provides an ELA/Social Studies connection and examples of personification as it describes in the USS Constitution "she savors her reward," and "Old Ironsides with pride and grace, greets all who come aboard." This resource also includes a fact box with a short history of the ship.