1. Warm-up # 8 1.What is the most commonly referred to piece of literature today? 2.What is the term for make references to people, places, events, etc? 3.Give one example of personification.

2. Simile and Metaphor Quiz

3. Allusion and Personification More types of Figurative Language

4. Allusion A reference to a statement, a person, a place, an event, or a thing that is well- known from literature, history, religion, myths, politics, sports, science or the arts

5. Can you identify the Allusion?

6. Examples The most common allusions refer to The Bible –“Lamb to the Slaughter” –Judas Plays like Shakespeare’s, Julius Caesar, etc

7. Think and Share with a Partner What other things do we reference today? –Major events, people, places

8. Personification A type of metaphor in which a nonhuman thing or quality is talked about as if it were human When human qualities are given to nonhuman things

9. Examples of Personification “User-friendly computers” “Misery loves company” The Giving Tree (children’s book)

10. Your turn With a partner, come up with several examples of personification. This can be in stories you have heard or read, cartoons in the newspaper or on TV or just your imagination.