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.

Ferret Soccer
When Pigs Fly
When Rattlesnakes Wear Roller Skates
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
My Kiwi Is the Captain
Just a Slug
At Hamster Sam’s Rodeo
When Otto Got a Hot Dog by Kenn Nesbitt
When Otto Got a Hot Dog
A Penguin's Toes by Kenn Nesbitt
A Penguin’s Toes
My Parrot Doesn’t Care to Fly
Frog Ball
My Uncle Had an Ant Farm by Kenn Nesbitt
My Uncle Had an Ant Farm
We're Skydiving Elephants by Kenn Nesbitt
We’re Skydiving Elephants
Toby the Snowboarding Doberman
Abrocat the Acrobat
Has Anyone Seen My Chameleon?
The Ugly, Ugly Duckling
I Bought a New Tank For My Goldfish