Personification

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Personification

Definition:

1. A figure of speech in which inanimate objects or abstraction are endowed with human qualities or are represented as possessing human form.

2. The act of personifying.

Examples:

Hunger sat shivering on the road. Flowers danced about the lawn. The computer hates me. Wind yells while blowing. Necklace is a friend. The clothes on the line danced in the wind. The flames ate hungrily at the wood.

Resources:

http://library.thinkquest.org/J0112392/personification.html http://dictionary.reference.com/search?r=2&q=personification

Peotry: Snow

Snow speaks to the people its falling above in the glooming sunlight. It's white sparkling voice echos as it falls through the air. By Jake


 * Two Sunflower Moved In The Yellow Room**

Ah, William, were weary of weather, said the sunflowers shining with dew, Our traveling habits have tired us, Can you give us a room with a view? They arranged themselves at the window and counted the steps of the sun, and they both took root in the carpet were the topaz tortoises run. By William Blake (1757-1827)

I like to see it lap the miles, And lick the valleys up, And stop to feed itself at tanks; And then, prodigious, step Around a pile of mountains, And, supercilious, peer In shanties by the sides of roads; And then a quarry pare To fit its sides, and crawl between, Complaining all the while In horrid, hooting stanza; Then chase itself down hill
 * The Train**

And neigh like Boanerges; Then, punctual as a start its own, Stop-docile and omnipotent- A stable door. //By Emily Dickinson//