View the following movie trailer and answer the questions relating to it:
1.What is being personified? 2.What specific human activities are they performing that they can't do in the real world?
Here's two examples of personification in poems. In each of the poems what is being personified? What specific human actions are they performing?
Two Sunflowers Move in the Yellow Room, by Nancy Willard "Ah, William, we're weary of weather," said the sunflowers, shining with dew. "Our traveling habits have tired us. Can you give us a room with a view?"
They arranged themselves at the window and counted the steps of the sun, and they both took root in the carpet where the topaz tortoises run.
April Rain Song, by Langston Hughes Let the rain kiss you Let the rain beat upon your head with silver liquid drops Let the rain sing you a lullaby The rain makes still pools on the sidewalk The rain makes running pools in the gutter The rain plays a little sleep song on our roof at night And I love the rain.
In each of the poems what is being personified? What specific human actions are they performing?