Simple Personification Examples for 3rd Grade Students

📚 Quick Study Guide

• ✍️ Personification is giving human qualities (like feelings, actions, or characteristics) to non-human things (like objects, animals, or ideas).
• 🌳 It helps make writing more interesting and imaginative.
• ☀️ Examples: The sun smiled down on us. The wind whispered secrets. My computer hates me.
• 🧠 Ask yourself: Is this thing doing something a human can do? If yes, it might be personification!

Practice Quiz

1. Which of the following sentences uses personification?
   1. A. The cat sat on the mat.
   2. B. The stars danced in the night sky.
   3. C. The car is red.
   4. D. I like to eat ice cream.
2. What human quality is given to the object in the sentence: "The teapot shouted when the water was boiling?"
   1. A. Happiness
   2. B. Anger
   3. C. Sadness
   4. D. Excitement
3. In the sentence, "The flowers nodded their heads in the breeze," what are the flowers doing that is usually done by people?
   1. A. Growing
   2. B. Nodding
   3. C. Smelling
   4. D. Blooming
4. Which sentence does NOT contain an example of personification?
   1. A. The moon peeked out from behind the clouds.
   2. B. The door groaned as I opened it.
   3. C. The book fell off the shelf.
   4. D. The sun played hide-and-seek with the clouds.
5. Which of these gives the BEST example of personification?
   1. A. The tree is tall.
   2. B. The car is fast.
   3. C. The wind howled in the night.
   4. D. The house is big.
6. What is personified in the following sentence: "The clouds cried tears of rain."
   1. A. Tears
   2. B. Rain
   3. C. Clouds
   4. D. Sky
7. Complete the following sentence using personification: "The old house ______."
   1. A. was built in 1920
   2. B. stood on the corner
   3. C. sighed with relief when the family came home
   4. D. had a leaky roof