PERSONIFICATION
Definition:
When you portray a thing, idea, or an animal
doing something only humans can do.
"Arise, fair sun and kill the envious moon"
Why is this an example of personification?
"The only monster here is the gambling monster
that has enslaved your mother! I call him
gambling and it's time to snatch your mother
from his neon claws!"
((Homer Simpson in The Simpsons))
Does “GAMBLING”
have claws?
Can “GAMBLING”
really ”enslave” ?
Personification
is giving human traits to non-human things.
CLAWS/ENSLAVING
Human trait ?_________________
GAMBLING
Non Human thing ?____________
I'll speak to it though Hell itself should gape
And bid me hold my peace.
Hamlet, scene ii
WHY IS THIS PERSONIFICATION?
GAPE and BID
Human trait ?_________________
HELL
Non Human thing ?____________
Doubt thou the stars are fire;
Doubt that the sun doth move;
Doubt truth to be a liar;
But never doubt I love.
Hamlet’s letter, scene ii
Tis now the very witching time of night,
When churchyards yawn and hell itself breathes out
Contagion to this world: now could I drink hot
blood,
And do such bitter business, as the day
Would quake to look on.
Hamlet, scene ii
Identity examples of Personification in these
excerpts from
“Hamlet”
Liberty Needs Glasses
excuse me but lady liberty needs glasses
EXTENDED PERSONIFICATION
and so does mrs justice by her side
both the broads r blind as bats
stumbling thru the system
justice bumbed into mutulu and
trippin on geronimo pratt
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but stepped right over oliver
and his crooked partner ronnie
justice stubbed her big toe on mandela
and liberty was misquoted by the indians
Lady Liberty
mrs. justice
slavery was a learning phase
forgotten with out a verdict
while justice is on a rampage
4 endangered surviving black males
i mean really if anyone really valued life
and cared about the masses
theyd take em both 2 pen optical
and get 2 pair of glasses
By
TUPAC SHAKUR
What does Tupac mean “lady liberty needs glasses?”
Why is this personification?
What are examples of Tupac extending the metaphor?
WRITE YOUR OWN SHAKESPEAREAN
PERSONIFICATION POEM
USE YOUR HANDOUT
WRITE YOUR OWN SHAKESPEAREAN
PERSONIFICATION POEM
STEP ONE:
STEP TWO:
Choose a word from List A
Choose a word from List B
Write this word next to the word from
List A.
NOW MAKE YOUR OWN POEM
Write five sentences and put them together
each on its own line.
EXAMPLE:
List A
sun
List B
tells
guides
moon
stars
sky
sea
stone
night
mountain
dawn
morning
shows
takes
reminds
teaches
listens
remembers
brings
looks
dances
dreams
EXAMPLE: stone listens
Night reminds me of yesterday.
The sun listens to the messages of the
clouds.
Moon, look for me in the fields.
Sea, guide me to you.
Dawn bring me to the new day.
WRITE YOUR PERSONIFICATION POEM
BELOW.
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NOW GIVE IT A - “TITLE”