Personification Main Idea: A person is trying to fall asleep. Personification A No matter how hard I tried, sleep ran away from me. I looked under the pillow and blankets, no sleep. Sleep lurked in the corner of my eyes. Everytime I tried to grasp it, it scurried away from me. It opened the curtains and shone the moonlight on my eyes. It peeked at me whenever I pretended to not care, it teased me with fading and muffled sounds. After hours and hours of chasing it around my bed all night, I trapped it with its favorite nostalgic show, Courage the Cowardly Dog. Just when I thought sleep would settle in with me, my alarm scared it away. What effect does the writing strategy have on the reader's understanding of the passage? who knows this