Connect head to desk with force. Repeat.

Personification: A figure of speech in which inanimate objects or abstractions are endowed with human qualities or are represented as possessing human form

My students do not seem to understand that. The things they are identifying as personification...not anywhere that makes any sense.

Some of my kids are actually doing a pretty good job with this song project, but I haven't corrected THAT many of them. I have been exposed to Ashanti, Alicia Keyes and Black Sabbath. I have Boston, 50 Cent and Lynard Skynard and who knows what else.

Yeah. Procrastinating.