Finding Personification in the Folktale
Which two things are personified in the folktale?
trees
misery
children
"I am Death, and I have come to take you with me."
Thinking fast, Aunty Misery said, "All right, but before I
go, I would like to pluck some pears from my beloved tree
to remember how much pleasure it brought to me in this
life. But I am a very old woman and cannot climb to the
tallest branches where the best fruit is. Will you be so
kind as to do it for me?"
With a heavy sigh like wind through a tomb, Senor Death
climbed the pear tree. Immediately he became stuck to it
as if with glue. And no matter how much he cursed and
threatened, Aunty Misery would not allow the tree to
release Death
-"Aunty Misery
Judith Ortiz Cofer
pears
death
Intro

What object do the men think of as a trifle?

Read the excerpt from act 1, scene 3, of julius caesar. cassius. am i not stayed for? tell me. cinna. yes, you are. o cassius, if you could but win the noble brutus to our party— cassius. be you content. good cinna, take this paper and look you lay it in the praetor’s chair, where brutus may but find it. and throw this in at his window. set this up with wax upon old brutus’ statue. all this done, repair to pompey’s porch, where you shall find us. is decius brutus and trebonius there? cinna. all but metellus cimber, and he’s gone to seek you at your house. well, i will hie, and so bestow these papers as you bade me. cassius. that done, repair to pompey’s theatre. what is cassius’s motivation for sending brutus the letter? cassius wants to make sure that cinna is on his side. cassius wants to reassure cinna that brutus will follow them. cassius wants to sway brutus to kill caesar. cassius wants to alert brutus about the conspiracy against him.

Swift’s satire that tells of three brothers’ coats is