You choose!

You choose!

Personification: giving objects or things a personality!

The first version of the limerick is not personified. Choose the right word to fill in the gaps.

The second version of the limerick is "personified". Which do you like best?

   cars      eating the chocs      felt quite cross      quickly      ran      shake      sped      stars      the first name of Jack      tip      young   

This limerick is about a starship. Can you see the starship in your mind?

There was a new starship from Mars
Which was flown in and out of the
It through the sky
It could go really quite high
When transporting fuel and .

The pilot was fond of the ship
But it developed a blip
It would judder and
Grinding sounds it would make
So he took it right down to the !



Now try this one - is the picture more clear now?



There was a starship from Mars
Who liked chomping hot chocolate bars
He through the sky
And as he went by
He would spit out the wrappers at stars.

The stars and turned black
They decided they should really fight back
They gathered their thoughts
And closed all their ports
To all starships with .

For that was the name don't you see
Of the starship from Mars, although he
Stopped
Well, he had run out of stocks
So he started again with green peas!