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Examples Help!
What is the
definition of Personification?
How do you define Personification? What is a Personification? The word
derives from the Latin words 'persona' meaning person, and 'facere'
meaning to make. The
definition of Personification is as follows:
English Grammar &
Terminology
Definition of Personification - a poetic device |
Definition: The endowment
of inanimate objects or abstract concepts with
animate or living qualities. A figure of speech in
which ideas are represented as as a person or
creature and attributed with
personality and human characteristics.
Examples: "Time let me play
/ and be golden in the mercy of his means" |
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Definition of Personification
- a poetic device |
Personification in Poems
& Poetry
Personification is
the treating of an inanimate object as if it were animate and is
probably the most beautiful and effective of all the figures of
speech. Personification depends much on a vivid imagination and
is adapted especially to poetical composition. It has two
distinguishable forms:
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when
personality is ascribed to the inanimate as in "The
mountains sing together, the hills rejoice
and clap their hands."
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when some
quality of life is attributed to the inanimate; as, a
raging storm; an angry sea; a whistling wind, etc.
Examples of Personification in Poems
& Poetry
Poems with Personification
examples can be found by the most famous poets including John
Milton and Robert Frost
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"Confusion
heards his voice.'' from Paradise Lost - Book 3 by John
Milton
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Another
example of personification from Paradise Lost by John
Milton
"Earth felt the wound; and Nature from her seat,
Sighing, through all her works, gave signs of woe."
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Spring Pools
by Robert Frost
"And like the flowers beside them chill and shiver,
Will like the flowers beside them soon be gone"
Examples of
Personification Poems
Examples Help! Use
of Personification in Poems & Poetry
Examples of Personification can
be found in many examples of the poem, poems or poetry. Famous
poets use this figure of speech to convey and emphasize unusual
and vivid images. The use of strong word association changes the
mode of thought and adds variation, embellishment and adornment
to literary works.
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Figures of Speech - Personification
In Figurative Language we use words in such a way that they
differ somewhat from ordinary every-day speech and convey
meanings in a more vivid and impressive manner. Figures, like
Personification make speech more effective, they beautify and emphasize it
in Rhetoric which is the art of speaking and writing
effectively. Figures of speech such as Personification use word association
to convey emotion and mood often in a non-literal sense.
Examples Help! Using
Personification
Figures of
speech such as Personification adds adornment, beautifies, colors, elegant
variation, embellishment, embroidery, emphasis, exaggeration,
exclamation, flourish, floweriness, irony, lushness and
luxuriance to the English language. This page providing facts
and info about Figures of Speech will help with the
understanding of this subject. |
