It is asking you to identify and copy an example of personification.
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The salmon with a hat on was conducting with a baton
And it tried to tune the tuna fish by playing on its scales.
The scales had all been flattened when the tuna fish was sat on
on purpose by a porpoise and a school of killer whales.
So the salmon with the hat on fiddled with his baton
while the angel fish got ready to play the tambourine.
Paul Cookson: 'Sea Shoals See Shows on the Seabed' from I'd Rather Be a Footballer: The Very Best of Paul Cookson (Macmillan, 2008)
The writer uses personification in this poem.
Find and copy one example of this.
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- Read the question. Read it again. What is it asking?
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- Do you know what the purpose of this feature is?
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To give human qualities to animals or objects.
- What does the writer give human qualities to in the poem?
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To the fish.
- Find one or two examples.
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The salmon was conducting. The angel fish got ready to play the tambourine.
- Choose one of them and copy it.
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… while the angel fish got ready to play the tambourine.
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