Personification

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Ellen Park Personification is used in writing to create more vivid and powerful images of nonliving things. Personification gives the human like qualities to nonliving objects that provides more depth of description. For example My face was warmed by the sun outside. VS The sunlight danced along my face warming it. I threw the ball across the field and it hit my brother. VS The ball I threw ran along with the wind and hit my brother. The way he looked at me made me happy. VS The way he looked at me made my heart sing and time stop around me.
 * Noun: ||  || # The attribution of a personal nature or human characteristics to something nonhuman, or the representation of an abstract quality in...
 * 1) A figure intended to represent an abstract quality. ||   ||

As shown in the examples, personification adds a lot more imagery to a sentence vs when it is not used.

Morgan Warenius Justice is blind and, at times, deaf. Money is the only friend that I can count on. The cactus saluted any visitor brave enough to travel the scorched land. Jan ate the hotdog despite the arguments it posed to her digestive system. The world does not care to hear your sad stories. The window winked at me. The tree's branches waved violently. The wind was as loud as a barking dog.
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 * Example of Personification:**

__** Personification in A Tale of Two Cities **__ Used unsparingly throughout __A Tale of Two Cities,__ personification among other figurative language enlivens the story while stressing major plot points. For example, Dickens states **//"The wind is rushing after us, and the clouds are flying after us, and the moon is plunging after us, and the whole wild night is in pursuit of us; but, so far we are pursued by nothing else"//** (p. 363). Here, he somewhat exaggerates the calm surroundings of the England-bound carriage by personifying them to be outright chasing the coach. Through personification, he manages to perfectly describe the frantic state of the clueless runaways. While they are not being followed, this portrays that very notion. In Book Two, he declares **//"Either Saint Antoine had an instinctive sense that the objectionable decoration was gone, or Saint Antoine was on watch for its disappearance; howbeit, the Saint took courage to lounge in, very shortly afterwards, and the wine-shop recovered its habitual aspect. In the evening, at which season of all others Saint Antoine turned himself inside out, and sat on door-steps and window-ledges, and came to the corners of vile streets and courts, for a breath of air..."//** (p.187). Dickens personifies Saint Antoine to collectively embody the town into one being. Earlier in this chapter (Book 2, ch.16), the town stops as Madame Defarge indicates the presence of a spy through a rose pinned on her head-dress. Here, the town is shown to regain what is considered normal function with the removal of said omen. Dickens goes on to say, "in the evening...Saint Antoine [the revolutionary town] turned himself inside out...for a breath of fresh air..." This time, in the evening, the town is inversely coming out of hiding to breathe and plan a revolution. In Book One, Dickens voices **//"It was prevalent everywhere. Hunger was pushed out of the tall houses, in the wretched clothing that hung upon poles and lines; Hunger was patched into them with straw and rag and wood and paper; Hunger was repeated in every fragment of the small modicum of firewood that the man sawed off; Hunger stared down from the smokeless, and started up from the filthy street that had no offal, among its refuse, or anything to eat. Hunger was the inscription on the baker's shelves, written in every small loaf of his scant stock of bad bread; at the sausage-shop, in every dead-dog preparation that was offered for sale. Hunger rattled its dry bones among the roasting chestnuts in the turned cylinder; Hunger was shred into atomies in every farthing porringer of husky chips of potato, fried with some reluctant drops of oil"//** (p. 30). Dickens not only repeats it seven times in this quote alone, but also chooses to make this "__H__unger" a proper noun, a person nonetheless. He personifies Hunger as such to introduce the reader to the French citizenry and just how far they've fallen. Directly preceding this quote, the impoverished people of Saint Antoine are even shown to mop up spilled wine off the streets. This desperate Hunger and poverty, prevalent everywhere, is what eventually forces a revolutionary hand; it forces the "rattling of dry bones." While his Victorian Era language in the novel is often considered too straitlaced for modern comprehension, the personification in __A Tale of Two Cities__ is practically vital to sustain proper authenticity and progression in the plot line. Definition and examples- http://www.literarydevices.com/personification/ Examples of Personification: Time flew by. The house looked so run-down that it appeared depressed. The flowers danced in the wind. The stars looked down on me from the sky. The fire went wild through the woods. The window whistled as the wind blew. The camera loves her. The waves swallowed the remaining shells on the sand. The moon was resting in the night sky. -Nicole Barnada Rakib Razzak Personification - giving human qualities to something other than a human. Atlee Hasson Opportunity knocks. The flames ate the house. Sydney Brobst

Giving life to inanimate objects.