Vocabulary Collectors Meaningful writing activity = personify vocabulary personification (noun) — the act of giving human qualities to an abstract noun (like love) or an inanimate noun (like a tree or the wind). It’s often used by poets. transitive verb form : personify adjective form : personifiable Synonyms embodiment (n) impersonation (n) personalizati on (n) incarnation (n) Antonyms dehumanizatio n (n) objectificati on (n) mechanization (n) disembodiment (n) The Cat & The Fiddle Hey diddle, Diddle, The cat and the fiddle, The cow jumped over the moon; The little dog laughed To see such sport, And the dish ran away with the spoon. by Mother Goose Humans laugh; dogs don’t really. That’s why this is one example of personificatio n in this nursery rhyme.
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Vocabulary Collectors Meaningful writing activity = personify vocabulary personification (noun) — the act of giving human qualities to an abstract noun.
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personification (noun) — the act of giving human qualities to an abstract noun (like love) or an inanimate noun (like a tree or the wind). It’s often used by poets.
personification (noun) — the act of giving human qualities to an abstract noun (like love) or an inanimate noun (like a tree or the wind). It’s often used by poets.
personification (noun) — the act of giving human qualities to an abstract noun (like love) or an inanimate noun (like a tree or the wind). It’s often used by poets.
I’d rather save this seat for someone better who might come along.
The new student superciliously spoke to me in the lunchroom today, so I walked away.
The wonderful Tingo Ed. Posts amazing videos about vocabulary words. Click the image above (or here) to see his memorable video for the word supercilious.
One of your weekly vocabulary options is to imagine one of your vocabulary words as a person—with a personality, a job, an outfit, a way looking at life. You will personify the word.
This will teach you a poetic tool.
This will help you to think more deeply about a word’s meaning than you would through rote memorization.
This will make you analyze and write creatively using a new word’s meaning.
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It’s easy. You simply have to tap into your poetic brain. I’ll show you the process I go through.
One of my favorite words is the transitive verb defenestrate.
“But how do I personify a vocabulary word?” you ask.
I first asked myself what kind of person would I associate with that word, and my answer was a Hollywood stuntman because they are thrown from windows. Meet Mr. Defenestrate, my visualized
I am silver and exact. I have no preconceptions.What ever you see I swallow immediatelyJust as it is, unmisted by love or dislike.I am not cruel, only truthful---The eye of a little god, four-cornered.Most of the time I meditate on the opposite wall.It is pink, with speckles. I have looked at it so longI think it is a part of my heart. But it flickers.Faces and darkness separate us over and over.Now I am a lake. A woman bends over me,Searching my reaches for what she really is.Then she turns to those liars, the candles or the moon.I see her back, and reflect it faithfully.She rewards me with tears and an agitation of hands.I am important to her. She comes and goes.Each morning it is her face that replaces the darkness.In me she has drowned a young girl, and in me an old womanRises toward her day after day, like a terrible fish.
This is an optional extra poem and partner task for teachers using this PowerPoint lesson. Click here for a printable version of this poem.
Personification again? Where and how does Sylvia Plath best personify the mirror in her poem?What are the two most challenging words. Look those words up. Which word would make the best personified character?Work with a partner to design a vocabulary entry that would earn a four on the rubric. Be creative!