Bringing things to life! - Personification.

We have done some more learning on the language feature personification. In pairs the students described the below photos. I have combined them into a description of someone approaching a house on a hill (with a little tweaking by me for flow.)

There a hill stood, guarding her prized possession. The house stood still, with her trusty guardian tree, waiting patiently for her guest. The wind rushed by, whistling her favourite song.

I approached the tree. Radiant lime green leaves smothered it, engulfing its spider like limbs in a tangled web. Though once a mighty king of the forest, the ancient tree was coming to the end of its days. As time passed, the tree sunk into a deep sea of thought, remembering the days when he was a great king. The old twisted tree sadly sat and lowered its arms and green afro. 

I came to the old twisted gate. It was bashed and tired, leaning on its side, embarrassed by any one passing.

The crawling plants threatened to invade the old, battered window. The ragged, old window groaned in dismay and felt lost as it was overtaken by the cunning ivy. As it slowly decayed, the house was drowned in plants.

As I opened the rustic old door it clung to its hinges and groaned. The wind whipped her worn out bones.

I wandered through the old haunted house and came across a room with a creaky lifeless old chair that sat there, depressed. Abandoned by the world around him it sat staring out the window as the years went past, rotting and fraying.