The characters danced off the page, coming to life.

Meaning: This sentence uses personification to describe the characters in a book as if they are real people who are coming to life.

Choice of Words: Characters are the people or creatures in a story. Danced means to move rhythmically to music or to move in a lively or graceful way. Page is a flat piece of paper in a book. Coming to life means becoming alive or active. Together, they create a vivid image of the characters in the book coming alive and moving off the page.

Alternative Expressions

Related Expressions

• Characters danced off the page.
• The characters leaped off the page, alive.
• Characters dance off the page lively.
• The characters jumped off the page and into my imagination.
• The characters leapt off the page.
• Characters leaped off the page, dancing in readers' minds.
• Characters leaped off page.
• The characters came to life on the page.
• Discovery unfolded, page by page, chapter by chapter.
• The words danced off the page.