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.
If You Give a Mouse a Motorcycle
The Dancing Baboon of Djibouti
Don’t Ever Ask a Centipede
An Ordinary Day
On Top of Mount Everest
Polar Bowling
While Lying On the Grass Today
Just a Slug
My Kiwi Is the Captain
When Otto Got a Hot Dog
At Hamster Sam’s Rodeo
My Parrot Doesn’t Care to Fly
A Penguin’s Toes
My Uncle Had an Ant Farm
Frog Ball
Toby the Snowboarding Doberman
We’re Skydiving Elephants
Abrocat the Acrobat
The Ugly, Ugly Duckling
Has Anyone Seen My Chameleon?
I Bought a New Tank For My Goldfish
A Talkative Man from Seattle