FIGURES OF SPEECH (PERSONIFICATION).

 FIGURES OF SPEECH.

Personification

 

Personification is a figure of speech in which the poet imparts human characteristics to the inanimate objects, ideas, animals or some forces of nature. Here non-living things are presented as living. For example, L. G. Montgomery has presented "the woods" as living people and writes, "The woods are preparing to go to sleep."

Personification helps to create more vivid and engaging imagery by attributing human traits to non-human things. Advertisements often use personification to make products more relatable or appealing. For example, a commercial might describe a car as “reliable as a best friend.”

 

Examples of Personification

 

Opportunity knocked at his door.

• Opportunity is given the human ability to knock, implying that it presented itself unexpectedly.

The city never sleeps.

• The city is given human characteristics of not sleeping, suggesting that it is always active and bustling.

The moon gazed down at the Earth.

• The moon is personified as if it could gaze, giving it a caring or watchful presence.