Personification Worksheet: In the Tropical Rain Forest

Here is the completed Personification Worksheet: In the Tropical Rain Forest, with explanations for each answer.

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1. The vines grabbed our legs as we walked.

✔ What is being personified?
The vines

✔ What is this thing doing that only a person can do?
Grabbing — Vines are plants and cannot intentionally grab like a human with hands. This gives them a human-like action of reaching out and holding onto something.

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2. The heat pushed the animals to the river.

✔ What is being personified?
The heat

✔ What is this thing doing that only a person can do?
Pushing — Heat is an abstract force; it doesn’t have physical arms or intent. “Pushing” implies deliberate force, which is a human (or animate) action.

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3. The huge river roared at all who passed.

✔ What is being personified?
The river

✔ What is this thing doing that only a person can do?
Roaring — While rivers make loud sounds, “roaring” suggests anger or vocal expression, like a person shouting or growling. It gives the river emotion and voice.

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4. The bats and birds hid from the grumpy sun.

✔ What is being personified?
The sun

✔ What is this thing doing that only a person can do?
Being grumpy — “Grumpy” is a human emotion or mood. The sun is given a personality trait — irritability — which only people (or characters) can have.

*(Note: Bats and birds hiding is natural behavior, not personification. The personification here is in describing the sun as “grumpy.”)*

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5. Mother nature made her home in the rain forest.

✔ What is being personified?
Mother nature

✔ What is this thing doing that only a person can do?
Making a home — “Mother nature” is a metaphorical figure representing the natural world. Giving her the ability to choose where to live (“make her home”) is a human action — building or selecting a dwelling.

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🌿 Summary of Personification:

Personification is giving human traits, emotions, or actions to non-human things (objects, animals, weather, nature, etc.). In each sentence, we identify:
- What is non-human? → That’s what’s being personified.
- What human action/feeling is it doing? → That’s the personification.

This worksheet helps students recognize how writers bring life and emotion to nature by using personification — making descriptions more vivid and relatable!

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