Printable worksheet teaching personification through a poem about clouds, with activities to highlight and color-code personified elements.

Let's solve the task from the image step by step.

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Task Overview: Understanding Personification

Definition Given:
*Personification* is a figure of speech that gives human qualities to objects, animals, or ideas. Something is *personified* if it has human traits that are not common for the object, animal, or idea.

Example Provided:
- Noun: dish
- Verb: ran
- Sentence: The dish ran away.
→ "Ran" is a human-like action given to a dish (which can't run), so this is personification.

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Poem to Analyze:

> The Clouds Teased
> The clouds flew
> like morning dew.
> Who knew the sky
> Could be so blue?
>
> Filled with joy
> And pleasantries,
> Who knew clouds
> Would cover trees?
>
> The rain scoffed
> At our joyful faces,
> But we just laughed,
> As we wet our faces.

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Step-by-Step Analysis:

We need to:
1. Highlight the personified noun in one color.
2. Highlight its expressive verb in a different color.
3. Complete the chart with the noun, verb, and sketch.

Let’s identify all instances of personification.

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#### Line 1: "The clouds flew like morning dew."
- "Flew" is an action, but clouds don’t “fly” like birds — they drift.
- However, "flew" is not truly personifying; it’s more of a metaphorical comparison.
- No human trait here — just movement.
→ Not personification.

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#### Line 4: "Who knew the sky Could be so blue?"
- "Sky" is being described as having a feeling ("knew") — but "knew" is used in a rhetorical way.
- "Could be so blue" is descriptive, not giving human qualities.
→ Not personification.

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#### Line 6: "Filled with joy"
- "Joy" is a human emotion.
- The subject is implied: clouds.
- So, clouds are described as being "filled with joy" — a human emotion.
→ This is personification.

✔ Personified Noun: clouds
✔ Expressive Verb: filled (with joy) — though "filled" is not a verb showing emotion directly, "joy" is the human quality.

Wait — actually, "filled with joy" is a phrase. The verb is "filled", and "joy" is the emotion.

So:
- Noun: clouds
- Verb: filled
- Human Quality: joy (emotion)

This is personification because clouds are given the human emotional state of joy.

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#### Line 7: "And pleasantries"
- "Pleasantries" = friendly talk, human social behavior.
- Again, attributed to clouds.
→ So, clouds are said to have "pleasantries" — a human trait.

✔ Personified Noun: clouds
✔ Expressive Verb: had (implied) — but no explicit verb here.

Actually, the line is: "Filled with joy / And pleasantries" — both are adjectives or phrases describing the clouds.

But since "pleasantries" is a human social trait, and clouds are given it, it's still personification.

But again, no direct verb.

Let’s look at the next lines.

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#### Line 9: "The rain scoffed"
- "Scoffed" is a human action — expressing contempt or mockery.
- Rain is not capable of scoffing.
- So, rain is given a human emotion and behavior.

✔ Personified Noun: rain
✔ Expressive Verb: scoffed

This is clear personification.

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#### Line 10: "At our joyful faces"
- "Joyful" describes us, not the rain.
- Not personification.

#### Line 11: "But we just laughed"
- We are humans — normal action.
- Not personification.

#### Line 12: "As we wet our faces"
- Normal human action.
- Not personification.

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✔ Final Identified Personifications:

1. Clouds → "filled with joy" and "pleasantries"
- But only "filled with joy" has a verb: filled
- "Pleasantries" is a noun phrase, no verb attached.

2. Rain → scoffed (clear verb + human trait)

So, two key examples:

| Noun | Verb | Sketch |
|------|------|--------|
| clouds | filled | cloud with smiling face or heart |
| rain | scoffed | raindrops with angry face |

But let’s double-check: Is "filled" really the verb?

Yes — "The clouds were filled with joy" — passive construction.

So, "filled" is the verb.

Also, "pleasantries" might be better interpreted as part of the same idea — but since it lacks a verb, we focus on the sentence with a verb.

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✔ Best Two Examples:

1. "Filled with joy" →
- Noun: clouds
- Verb: filled
- Human trait: joy (emotion)

2. "The rain scoffed" →
- Noun: rain
- Verb: scoffed
- Human trait: mockery/contempt

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🎯 Final Answer (for the Chart):

| Noun | Verb | Sketch |
|------|------|--------|
| clouds | filled | Draw a happy cloud with a smile or heart |
| rain | scoffed | Draw raindrops with a frowning or mocking face |

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✔ How to Highlight:

- Personified noun: highlight clouds and rain in one color (e.g., blue).
- Expressive verb: highlight filled and scoffed in a different color (e.g., red).

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🔍 Summary:

- Personification occurs when non-human things are given human emotions or actions.
- In the poem:
- Clouds are "filled with joy" → human emotion
- Rain "scoffed" → human expression of contempt

These are the two main instances.

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✔ Final Answer (as per worksheet):

Highlighted in text:

> The clouds flew
> like morning dew.
> Who knew the sky
> Could be so blue?
>
> FILLED WITH JOY
> And pleasantries,
> Who knew clouds
> Would cover trees?
>
> THE RAIN SCOFFED
> At our joyful faces,
> But we just laughed,
> As we wet our faces.

- Color 1 (nouns): Highlight clouds and rain
- Color 2 (verbs): Highlight filled and scoffed

Then complete the chart:

| Noun | Verb | Sketch |
|------|------|--------|
| clouds | filled | ☁️ with smile or heart |
| rain | scoffed | 💧 with angry face |

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✔ Done!