right way can have a amazing effect on the quality of a novel. This is proven true in Harper Lee?s novel‚ To Kill a Mockingbird. Harper Lee uses descriptions that appeal to the reader?s sight‚ which helps them to visualize the setting. She uses personification to relate non-human objects in the setting to the reader. Lee uses adjectives that suggest different feelings‚ which help the reader to better understand the setting. Harper Lee uses descriptive language to enhance the setting of To Kill a Mockingbird
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2013 Period 3 PERSONIFICATION ESSAY: THE CHAMBERED NAUTILUS In the poem‚ “The Chambered Nautilus”‚ written by Oliver Wendell Holmes‚ he tells the fate of a nautilus to show us that we should live our lives like everyday like its our last and that we should move forward from the past. To prove his moral‚ he tells the fate of a nautilus by giving it human qualities and using personification to show how it lives its life and not dwell on its past. Homles uses personification in this poem to compare
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"Mirror"‚ Sylvia Plath employs many different poetic devices to develop her message that people need the truth although it may be hurtful. Plath uses a mirror and then a lake as a metaphor for the truth. She also makes the mirror come alive with personification‚ simile and metonymy. These other devices are important to the poem and the scene it creates‚ but the mirror being a metaphor for truth is the most important. The poem is basically about a woman looking into a mirror. As she ages and grows
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“Africville” by Maxine Tynes 1: Examples of personification include “We are Africville” and “I am Africville”. This is personification because they cannot really be “Africville”; this is because Africville is not a person‚ or an adjective usually appropriate to be paired with humans. However in this case the author does it quite well. For example comparing “I am tired” to “I am Africville” one can quickly tell that this is a personification on Africville‚ in the sense of making Africville an adjective
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describes the bad conditions in which people in Africa are living. In Warsan Shire’s “Home” (2015) and Dennis Brutus “Nightsong: city: (1694)‚ both poets employs personification‚ metaphor‚ and simile to illustrate that home is not always a safe place. There is always something that will make you leave home. Both poets uses personification to give a human characteristic to a non human objects in their
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artillery bombardment. One of the techniques that Owen uses in this paragraph is personification‚ in the first line. He writes "the merciless east winds that knife us". This helps to show the pain that the wind was causing to the men‚ and comparing it to the pain that would be caused if it was a knife that was being stabbed into them. In this sentence‚ a knife isn’t really ’knifing’ them‚ so this shows that personification is used. Also in Verse One‚ consonance is also used. He writes "worried by silence
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magnificant job of creating this descriptive piece using the techniques of personification ‚ descriptive language and the exposition of the short story . these techiniques are closely linked together to create the suspen in story . these narrative conventions used by Hunter helps create a story that is sensationally suspenseful. One of the important techiniques present in this short story is personification .personification is used extensively in the short story to help create realist suspense
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Killian Hour 3 I chose the poem “The Labyrinth” by Robert P. Baird. Robert P. Baird is a doctoral candidate at the University of Chicago‚ and lives in Seattle. His poem‚ “The Labyrinth”‚ has three poetic devices; alliteration‚ consonance‚ and personification. Alliteration is the repetition of the same sounds at the beginning of words or in stressed syllables. There are many examples of alliteration in “The Labyrinth”. In the first stanza‚ “Torn turned and tattered” and “Bowed burned and battered”
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ENGLISH-GRADE 7 L.C. Identify figures of speech that show comparison (simile‚metaphor‚personification) I.Objectives At the end of 60-minute period the students will be able to: 1. identify simile‚ metaphor‚ and personification; 2. cooperate in identifying the following figurative language and ; 3. write figures of speech sentences. II.Subject Matter Topic: Figures of Speech (Simile‚Metaphor‚Personification) Concept: A figure of speech is figurative language in the form of a single word or phrase
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like hyperbole‚ synecdoche‚ puns‚ and personification are also figures of speech. Though devices are frequently used in language‚ they are also conveyed through the use of music‚ dance‚ or movement. This helps one become more engaged and drawn to the performance. In the play ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’‚ many literary devices are used; critical through the art and literature. One of the literary devices used in ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’ is personification. Personification is used to express abstract ideas
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