Identifying Personification
How does the author personify the rabbit, bear, and lion
in this passage? Choose the two best answers.
The bear and the rabbit climbed up and up the cliff
where he Lion had his lair. They found him. Kept their
distance. He watchin them and they watchin him.
Everybody actin cordial.
"Hear tell you are scarin everybody, all the little animals,
with your roarin all the time," Bruh Rabbit said.
"I roars when I pleases," he Lion said.
"Well, might could you leave off the noise first thing in
the mornin, so the little animals can get what they want
to eat and drink?" asked Bruh Bear.
-"He Lion, Bruch Bear, and Bruh Rabbit,"
Virginia Hamilton
by having characters speak
by having characters climb a cliff
by having the lion roar
by having the characters act cordially
by having the characters eat and drink

The red badge of courage documents henry's growth and maturity as a soldier through the changes in his personality and behavior. during this transition, henry's emotions run the gamut from glory to fear to depression to anger to exhilaration to courage to honor. his personality and behavior move from innocence to experience, in essence from doubt to duty. henry's maturing process occurs very quickly. in the span of just a few days, henry experiences a lifetime's worth of growth — from his enlisting for self-centered reasons of glory, to the exhilaration of his first battle, to his running from his second battle for fear of being killed, and, ultimately, to his facing the enemy and leading a charge as he becomes one of the bravest soldiers in his regiment. several examples from the novel illuminate the changes which take place in henry's character and in their relationship to the themes of doubt and duty.