At the beginning of the year, I knew next to nothing about literary devices. I had heard of them because my previous teachers had mentioned them, but I'd never had to really use them in depth. This year as a reader, my understanding of devices assisted me in my reading. In past years, my teachers had asked me to find an example of personification in our books, but I had never understood them and I just did what my friends did. This year, I learned way more about personification. I learned that a personification is giving an inanimate object living qualities when I did the blue literary terms to know worksheet. When the class was doing the short story and introduction to fiction unit, personifications were used in most stories. For