Examples of personification

Personification

Everyone knows what a person is, but do you know what personification is? A personification is when you assign human qualities to something that isn’t alive.

Examples of personification

• The stars danced playfully in the moonlit sky.

• The rundown house appeared depressed.

• The first rays of the morning tiptoed through the meadow.

• The bees played hide and seek with the flowers and they buzzed from one to another.

• The river swallowed the earth as the water continued to rise higher and higher.

• The thunder grumbled like an old man.

• At precisely 6:30 am my alarm clock sprang into life.

• The news took me by surprise.

• The evil tree was lurking in the shadows.
• The ocean danced in the moonlight.