English homework year 6

Ella did a whole piece of work last night on personification, she has come home today saying it is all wrong and she has to re-do it

Can anyone give me examples as I have googled and really don't understand it

Not sure what it means, will try and find out. Emma just doing her homework now too and half of it has gone over my head

DD2's explanation is

It's when you apply human characteristics to an object, for example "the house rumbled with laughter".

Personification is giving human/lifelike qualities to an non human or inanimate things
eg: The night crept over the village, the snowflakes danced across the grass etc

Don't confuse with anthromorphism (SP?) where an inanimate object gets up and lives - like Thomas the Tank engine

Some classic poems with personification

The Train

I like to see it lap the miles,
And lick the valleys up,
And stop to feed itself at tanks;
And then, prodigious, step
Around a pile of mountains,
And, supercilious, peer
In shanties by the sides of roads;
And then a quarry pare

To fit its sides, and crawl between, Complaining all the while
In horrid, hooting stanza;
Then chase itself down hill

And neigh like Boanerges;
Then, punctual as a start its own,
Stop-docile and omnipotent-
A stable door.

By Emily Dickinson

Jack Frost
By C.E. Pike

Look out! Look out!
Jack Frost is about!|
He’s after our fingers and toes;
And all through the night,
The gay little sprite
Is working where nobody knows.

He’ll climb each tree,
So nimble is he,
His silvery powder he’ll shake.
To windows he’ll creep
And while we’re asleep
Such wonderful pictures he’ll make.

Across the grass
He’ll merrily pass,
And change all its greenness to white.
Then home he will go
And laugh ho, ho ho!
What fun I have had in the night.


An example of a pupil's work:
The whirling, wind danced
The shining, sun smiled at me
The salty, sea sang

Sorry baby shouting - any more Qs just ask
HTH

She did 3 pages of examples last night and apparently they are all wrong, I understand the concept I think.

She had things like 'the hurricane was dizzy' so that is a anthromorphism (SP?)

I'm confused

what sim said

"the engine purred'

"She trotted along"

"the tree's wept"

gggrrr i will do dome more in a sec Molly having a meltdown

Hmm, that's tricky her example isn't anthropomorphism (I checked the spelling ) it is personification (sort of but a bit clumsy) ...I'd probably have asked the her to improve her work by including the action that made the hurricane dizzy (The hurricane danced dizzily).

Has the teacher written any comments explaining to her how to do the task?

I've taken this from a dfes document:
personification
a form of metaphor in which language relating to human action, motivation and emotion is used to refer to nonhuman
agents or objects or abstract concepts: the weather is smiling on us today; Love is blind.

Anthropomorphism is like the white rabbit in Alice in Wonderland, or an animal mascot for a football team IYKWIM where the non human object / animal etc gets up and actually does human things...the two are very easily confused and a Year 6 pupil doesn't need to understand anthropomorphism. Personification is a poetic device while anthropomorphism is more usually found in stories / fables etc

Not sure if I'm being clear...

ETA more examples now Ewan is asleep..
The tree waved it's bony fingers in the breeze
The engine roared in protest
The velvet cloak gently hugged me
The sun smiled warmly down on the children
The wind whispered gently in my ear

Sorry these aren't a bit more imaginative...my brain seems to be a bit broken since
Pity the children I have to teach when I go back

Thanks for all the help The teacher hasn't written anything, all we have to go by is what she has wrote in her homework diary.

We have sat together looking at examples online and she is now writing some down Not sure she fully understands the concept but ZI think we are on the right track

Well i have learnt something new myself there!!