poetic device: Anthropomorphism & Personification

Anthropomorphism is when animals or objects behave like people, such as a cat who learns karate, or a dog who can talk or play piano.

Personification is similar, but is when animals or objects have seemingly human characteristics, such as a tree waving it’s “arms” in the breeze.

These poems all have anthropomorphic characters or some degree of personification.

I Have to Write a Poem
Whenever Yaks Play Basketball
Get Me Out of the Fish Tank
My Computer Ate My Homework by Kenn Nesbitt
My Computer Ate My Homework
Banana Dan
My Chicken’s On the Internet
When Rattlesnakes Wear Roller Skates
Ferret Soccer
The Weasel and the Whale
The Lamps Were All Delighted by Kenn Nesbitt
The Lamps Were All Delighted
When Pigs Fly
The Dancing Baboon of Djibouti
If You Give a Mouse a Motorcycle
Don’t Ever Ask a Centipede
An Ordinary Day
On Top of Mount Everest
Polar Bowling
My Kiwi Is the Captain
While Lying On the Grass Today
Just a Slug
When Otto Got a Hot Dog by Kenn Nesbitt
When Otto Got a Hot Dog
At Hamster Sam’s Rodeo
A Penguin's Toes by Kenn Nesbitt
A Penguin’s Toes
My Parrot Doesn’t Care to Fly

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