What is personification?A great example to answer the question of what is personification comes from one of the fun writing activity prompts. Learning about perspective writing helps to clarify the idea of ‘what is personification’ by explaining how inanimate objects can become animated. Writers can adapt any item, and not just any character, to feel comfortable in any surrounding. It is not only important to grasp the importance of characters and to do adequate research to understand just whom your characters are, but you also must understand the objects and abstract ideas you use so that your ideas come across as fully capturing the setting you are trying to create in your writing. Ask yourself ‘what is personification?’ Then, think of personification examples all your own that stem from personification words and phrases you have seen before in other forms of perspective writing. The following is an example of ‘what is personification’ to give you a better idea of just how to go about writing your own piece as you learn how to personify it: Written from the perspective of an oily rag about to go up in flames They say that people go from rags to riches. Well, in my case, I’m just a rag that’s about to feel the burn. That’s right. You see, some wise guy had the brilliant idea to start a bonfire out at the campgrounds the other day. Instead of using the old-fashioned technique of rubbing two sticks together, he doused me and my buddies in gasoline and threw us into a big pile. Then he went and stole his dad’s lighter out of the car’s glove compartment and headed our way. At first, the heat felt kind of good. Then I saw my buddies getting sucked in by the flames and I knew I wasn’t going to be around much longer. I tried to scream, but who am I kidding? I’m an oily rag doused in gasoline and going up in flames. Who’s going to try and save me? See what you can come up with on your quest to learn just what personification is to you.
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