Personification worksheet for students to identify personification in sentences.

Task: Identify the object being personified and the personification (how it is being personified) in each sentence.

#### Definitions:
- Personification: A figure of speech where human characteristics, emotions, or actions are attributed to non-human objects, animals, or abstract concepts.
- Object: The thing being given human-like qualities.
- Personification: The specific human-like quality or action being attributed to the object.

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Sentences and Analysis:

1. The doorbell obstinately refused to be chime.
- Object: Doorbell
- Personification: Refused (a human action)

2. The drawer cheerfully slid open and offered up its contents.
- Object: Drawer
- Personification: Cheerfully (a human emotion), Offered up (a human action)

3. Exhausted from clinging to a single nail, the picture let go and fell wearily to the floor.
- Object: Picture
- Personification: Exhausted (a human emotion), Let go (a human action), Wearily (a human emotion)

4. The bossy phone dinged and chirped and chimed all day.
- Object: Phone
- Personification: Bossy (a human characteristic)

5. The restless wind wouldn’t let anyone get any peace.
- Object: Wind
- Personification: Restless (a human emotion), Wouldn’t let (a human action)

6. The attic window of the old house gazed mournfully out across the lawn.
- Object: Attic window
- Personification: Gazed (a human action), Mournfully (a human emotion)

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Final Answer:

| OBJECT | PERSONIFICATION |
|-------------------|---------------------------------------------|
| Doorbell | Refused |
| Drawer | Cheerfully, Offered up |
| Picture | Exhausted, Let go, Wearily |
| Phone | Bossy |
| Wind | Restless, Wouldn’t let |
| Attic window | Gazed, Mournfully |

Boxed Final Answer:
\boxed{
\begin{array}{|c|c|}
\hline
\textbf{OBJECT} & \textbf{PERSONIFICATION} \\
\hline
\text{Doorbell} & \text{Refused} \\
\hline
\text{Drawer} & \text{Cheerfully, Offered up} \\
\hline
\text{Picture} & \text{Exhausted, Let go, Wearily} \\
\hline
\text{Phone} & \text{Bossy} \\
\hline
\text{Wind} & \text{Restless, Wouldn’t let} \\
\hline
\text{Attic window} & \text{Gazed, Mournfully} \\
\hline
\end{array}
}