Seven slides introducing and providing examples of personification. Slides also explain the purpose and impact of personification within a text, and examples come from "Rappaccini's Daughter" by Nathaniel Hawthorne.

A graphhic organizer to help students brainstorm ideas for personification. A blank copy as well as a completed example are provided.

A slideshow discussing ten rhetorical devices, with links to examples, in-depth information, and a video. Covers logos, ethos, pathos, analogy, metaphor, irony, personification, rhetorical question, tricolon, and maxims. Presents a...

A graphic organizer which allows students to document and list the figures of speech they identify in a given piece of literature. These include simile, metaphor, personification, and symbol, and require examples from the text.

An image of "The Artist's Daughters as Personifications of Painting and Music", created by Johann Friedrich August Tischbein in 1804 (Oil on canvas, 131 x 99 cm).

An image of "Personification of Music (St Cecilia)", created by Antonio Franchi, c. 1650 (Oil on canvas, 87 x 67 cm).

An image of "A Personification of Fame", created by Bernardo Strozziz (Oil on canvas, 107 x 152 cm).

From the Metropolitan Museum of Art this page details the 1st century A.D. Roman sculpture "Statue of Eirene (personification of peace)" with a description and images of the piece.

The sacred Apis bull was the personification of the Memphite god Ptah of creation and fine arts. The bull's head is crowned by the sun disk and the uraeus (cobra). The sacred animal stands on a bronze base and a wooden sled.

Hapy was the personification of the Nile flood. His body showed both male and female genders at the same time. Hapy was often depicted on the throne of the king, tying the lotus and the papyrus on the symbol of unification.

Denarius of the earliest kind: Having on the obverse a personification of Rome as a warrior with helmet; and on the reverse, a chariot drawn by four horses. - Chambers' Encyclopedia, 1875