…Creator gave to me when I and the Tree and the rock were one. Personification: Personification is to give human attributes to inanimate objects. For example, “But today, the Rock…
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Theme for English B
…statement that is asked to receive an answer. It is just posed to make the point clear. For example, “I wonder if it’s that simple?” Personification: Personification is to give…
Ulysses
…For example, “The thunder and the sunshine, and opposed”, “That hoard, and sleep, and feed, and know not me” and “To sail beyond the sunset, and the baths”. Personification: Personification…
Examples of Figurative Language in Rap Songs
…room without a roof’. The person is compared to a room without a roof. A room without a roof is also an extended metaphor for sadness or abandonment. Personification is…
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
…love and attraction. Personification: Personification is to give human qualities to inanimate objects. For example, “The Sun came up upon the left, Out of the sea came he! And he…
Examples Of Figurative Language In Popular Songs
…can see the personification and simile in the following lines ‘The wind is howling like the swirling storm inside’. Here the wind is personified and it is compared by a…
Song of Myself
…mothers, For me lips that have smiled, eyes that have shed tears, For me children and the begetters of children.” Personification: Personification is to give human qualities to inanimate objects….
The Battle Hymn of the Republic
…of the lilies Christ was born across the sea.” Personification: Personification is to give human characteristics to inanimate objects. For example, “His truth is marching on” and “His day is…
Song Of Solomon Chapter 2
…Sharon, and the lily of the valleys” (Line 1) shows the speaker comparing himself to flowers, symbolizing beauty, grace, and significance. It is also a good use of symbols. Personification:…
Courage
…made between objects that are different in nature. The poet used the metaphor of the sword for death, showing that it becomes sharpened during old age. Personification: It means to…
Do Not Stand at My Grave and Weep
…the wind, and even the sunlight. Personification: It means to use human attributes to lifeless things to show as if they have life and emotions of their own. For example,…
Lines Composed a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey, On Revisiting the Banks of the Wye during a Tour. July 13, 1798
…The poet used the extended metaphor of nature as a healing power or his sibling or a friend or even a living being. Personification: It means to attribute human emotions…
Deer Symbolism
…use deer as personification in most loved folk tales such as ‘The One-Eyed Doe’ and ‘The Stag and a Lion’. In pop cultures, especially films like the Chronicles of Narnia,…
In Memoriam, [Ring out, wild bells]
…“like” or “as,” such as in “Ring out the grief that saps the mind” in line 9. Personification: It is giving human characteristics to non-human things, such as in “The…
Counter Attack
…Personification: The attribution of human characteristics to non-human things. For example, the line “While dawn broke like a face with blinking eyes” (line 2) shows the dawn is personified as…
The Manhunt
…speech that combines contradictory terms. An example of this can be found in the line “blown hinge” (line 6), where the oxymoron highlights the severity of the soldier’s injuries. Personification:…
Sonnet XXXVIII
…speaker suggests that their writing is of little consequence (“slight muse”), but also acknowledges that if it is well-received. Personification: It is giving human qualities to something that is not…
Sonnet 70
…of the poem to a crow in the sky. Personification: It gives human qualities to non-human things. For example, “being woo’d of time” (Line 6) shows time gave the human…
Christmas Bells
…earth, good-will to men!” (Lines 23-25). Personification: It gives human qualities to non-human things. Longfellow personifies hate, which “is strong, / And mocks the song / Of peace on earth,…
Casey at the Bat
…of a beating heart. Personification: It gives human qualities to non-human things in the poem. Lines 29-30 show the described as “unheeded” as if it has a will of its…
