Starter Activity

What am I?
1. Cheetah
2. Rainbow
3. Candle
4. Snake

Personification
Poems
Learning Objectives
To understand and explore
personification and to use it
effectively in our own writing.

Outcomes:
To understand the term personification (level
3).
To use personification effectively in your own
poetry (level 4).
To be able to use rhyme, similes or metaphors

Key Terms

Simile
Comparing things using like or as.
e.g. He swims like a fish. As quiet as a
mouse.

Metaphor

Comparing things by saying something is the

other.
e.g. Life is a journey. Her eyes were still, blue
pools.
Personification
Giving a non-living object human characteristics
or abilities.

Personification

Examples:
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.

The camera loves me.

The sun greeted me this
morning.
The lightning lashed out with
anger.
The flowers begged for water.

Writing your own

You now have an allocated object to base your
personification poem on.
Create a mind-map to help you think of ideas.

Bored of
sitting
on the
wall

Clock

Draft your personification poems.

Fed up
of
watchin
g time
pass by

Extension: Try to add rhyme, similes or

metaphors to your poem!

Peer Assess

Read your personification poem to a partner,

without revealing what the object is. Try and guess
what a partners poem is about.

Award them a level and comment on what was

done well and what could be improved:
Outcomes:
To understand the term personification (level
3).
To use personification effectively in your own
poetry (level 4).
To be able to use rhyme, similes or metaphors