Personification Shapes Meaning and Mood
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Objective
I can explain how personification contributes to meaning or mood in a text.
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Key concepts
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Personification is a literary device that attributes human qualities or actions to inanimate objects, animals, or abstract ideas.
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Authors use personification to deepen a reader's understanding and emotional connection to a text.
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Personification can make abstract concepts more concrete and relatable, or imbue descriptions with vivid imagery and emotional resonance, such as when 'the wind howled' suggests a dramatic mood.
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Practice
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Based on the passage, which statement accurately explains how personification deepens a reader's understanding and emotional connection to a text?
Consider the sentence: 'The old car coughed and sputtered before finally dying.' How does the personification in this sentence contribute to the mood of the description?
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“Explain how personification contributes to the meaning or mood in the following sentence: 'The old car coughed and sputtered before finally starting.'”
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