…their respective journals and diaries. Personification: The novel shows examples of personifications as given below, i. The little river, the Esk, runs through a deep valley, which broadens out as…
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What are Literary Devices
…for the sake of emphasis. For example: Your bag weighs a ton! I have got a million issues to look after! 4. Personification: It gives a thing, an idea or…
Eugene Field
…frequently employed metaphorical language in his poems along with other literary devices such as alliteration, personification, and assonance. His popular poems include “A Democratic Hymn,” “A Dream of Sunshine,” “A…
Common Sense
…sense forgot to advise him about the lovely smile of his beloved. The phrase shows the use of personification as common sense has been personified as his advisor. Example #4…
Cold Shoulder
…and the poet stays constant. The phrase, therefore, shows the poet’s cold shoulder to poetry. Though the phrase shows its literal meanings, it has also highlighted the use of personification…
Beowulf
…third-person omniscient narrator. 16. Personification: Beowulf shows the use of personifications such as; My armour helped me to hold out; my hard-ringed chain-mail, hand-forged and linked. (550-551) Through my own…
The Sick Rose
…that he is calling the rose, signifying it as a personification. He states that the rose is sick and that an invisible worm has reached it during the howling storm…
Chaise Lounge
…it refers to the title of the poem, too. However, the ‘longue’ has been used in non-standard spelling and as a personification as if it has a life of its…
The Haunted Palace
…seek permission to mourn its desolation, seeing that tomorrow will never come when this will become glorious again. The past glory, as presented as a personification, moves around this stately…
Examples Of Figurative Language In Children’s Poetry and Rhymes
…shift of imagery in the next line when he fell. The contrast is dramatic and immediate. There is hyperbole used as humor; otherwise, it’s just a funny poem. Personification is…
A Sight for Sore Eyes
…personification of beauty who takes away the pain from his damaged soul. Example #3 Valley of Wild Horses by Zane Grey “Ah-huh! Sounds like music to me,” replied Smith, growing…
The Crucible Characters
…is plotting against his position. Though he represents power, he is also the personification of a megalomaniac. Character #8 Mrs. Ann Putnam The wife of Thomas Putnam, Mrs. Ann plays…
Mother of Pearl
…such shells. He uses a beautiful personification to describe the pearl and brings out its human qualities saying, “its skin, its sinew.” The use of diverse images of touch and…
Night
…father and son, and fire. Narrator: The novel is narrated by a first-person narrator, Elie, who is also the author. Personification: The novel shows the use of personifications. For example,…
Raymond A. Foss
…constantly uses themes that center on ideas of life, nature, and God. Foss’s use of metaphors, symbols, personification, and diverse images in his poetry has made him a popular poetic…
John Keats
…Keats’s diction is highly connotative. His writing style is characterized by sensual imagery and contains many poetic devices such as alliteration, personification, assonance, metaphors, and consonance. All of these devices…
Retrospect
…was the light.” The poet made use of personification in these lines where light is personified as a mother that removed the darkness in his life. Then, the desire is…
The Fault, Dear Brutus
…“Fault” and “Stars” are parts of figurative speech. Metaphor: “Stars” are presented as active objects affecting our lives. Personification: “Stars” have been personified as something affecting lives of human beings….
15 Epic Uses of Apostrophe in The Iliad
…war! by whom the mighty fall, / Who bathe in blood, and shake the lofty wall!” This example illustrates another use of the apostrophe: personification of abstract ideas. Unlike the…
Brevity is the Soul of Wit
…Relation to Unconscious, Sigmund Freud aptly personifies Polonius as “the old chatterbox,” who is always least “brief” and least “witty.” Literary Devices Personification: “Wit” is personified as having a “soul.”…
