Personification Exercise: Conversation with a Gingerbread House

Personification is where you give a non-living object characteristics of a person.  When people say the dessert is calling their name, they are using personification.

Write a conversation between you and a gingerbread house. 

I used this lesson today to practice dialogue and introduce personification. 

 I wrote mine as a free verse and posted it on Poems of Silliness.

Conversation with a Gingerbread House

By Mary Bauer

"Oh, Gingerbread House,

You taunt me.
You look delicious."
"You want me?
I'm not very good."
"You are."
"Your little sister licked her fingers
all the while she built me."
"Never mind."

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