Thursday, June 2, 2011

Personification

Personification
Definition: A type of metaphor that a nonhuman object is described as or act like a human.

Example: 
The Cat and The Fiddle
Hey diddle, Diddle,
The cat and the fiddle,
The cow jumped over the moon;
The little dog laughed
To see such sport,
And the dish ran away with the spoon.
     - Mother Goose
Significance:
Personification is a figurative language that are used to make poems more interesting and creative. It gives readers a image of what is being personified and talked about in the poem.


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