1. Personification What word do you notice inside personification?
How does this word clue you into what personification might mean?

2. Personification
Giving human qualities, feeling, action, or characteristics to inanimate (non-living) objects.

3. The Sky is Low-Emily Dickinson
THE sky is low, the clouds are mean,
A travelling flake of snow
Across a barn or through a rut
Debates if it will go.
A narrow wind complains all day
How some one treated him;
Nature, like us, is sometimes caught
Without her diadem.

4. What kind of words does she use to set the mood of the poem?
How does she intensify the image of an unpleasant day by using personification?
What does she compare nature to? Why does she do this?

5. Examples of Personification
My smile shouts, “I’m not awake yet!”
The wind whispers like a tree in the breeze.
Cars dance across the icy road.
The run down, destroyed house appeared depressed.
She did not realize that opportunity was knocking at her door.
Time flew by and before we knew it, the school day was over.
At the same time each morning, my alarm springs to life.
The fire ran wild all over town.

6. Verbs
Boil, Swing, Dance, Shout, Cry, Tells, Shows, Reminds, Teaches, Listens, Remembers, Brings, Looks, Dreams, Guides, Takes
Example: Candle/ Dances-
The birthday candle dances on the cake like a beautiful ballerina.