Personification

in this. The theme is mortality and natural transitions throughout life. The speaker of the poem uses extended metaphor, personification, and an oxymoron to show that the athlete should die young so that he will be remembered as a youthful and successful human. In the poem, the extended…

situations in a credible manner. Throughout the text, he uses figurative language in the form of personification, comparisons, and his diction is appropriate for the topic of injustice in the government. A device Thoreau commonly uses in his text to prove his point is comparison. For instance, instead of referring to the government as a system, he compares it to a person, which is an example of personification because he is and comparing the government system to a person. In paragraph 2, he…

The Great Gatsby takes time during the 1920s in New York City. A well-educated man or as he appears to be, returns to the city where he fell in love as a young poor boy with a rich girl, named daisy. In interest of encountering his long lost love, Gatsby buys a mansion next to Nicks home who is Daisy’s cousin. With Gatsby return Daisy finds herself wondering if she really loves her formal life. As Daisy sees that Gatsby has all she has ever looked for in a man, she begins an affair with Gatsby…

Annie Dillard uses personification and an anaphora in section 4 to illustrate the significance of the total eclipse that awakens the mind and brings it back to reality. She conveys, “ people on all the hillsides, including, I think, myself, screamed when the black body of the moon detached from the sky and rolled off the sun.” (889) In this instance, the moon is the devil that covers God’s angelic light from glistening over the land and the people. The experience is life threatening because the…

To Kill a Mockingbird Harper Lee uses her words to add a depth to the story. She uses types of imagery to add layers to the book which when the reader peals those layers back will reveal a deeper meaning to the story. In this novel Lee uses personification in her writing. She wrote “The house died” (13). This gives the house a human like quality making it more relatable to the reader which in return makes the reader more immersed into the story . Simile is also used in this story to compare two…

of the main reasons for such struggles is the use of disguise by one of the parties involved, namely Viola. In Viola’s dramatic soliloquy, found in lines 14-41 of Act 2 scene 2, Shakespeare employs tone, diction, and literary devices, such as personification, to explain how her disguise has conjured up conflict in the form of a complicated love triangle. At the beginning of this passage, the tone seems to be one of confusion as Viola tries to make sense of what had happened with Malvolio and…

O'Brien pursues the theme of masculinity by using simile, anaphora, and personification as figurative language, religious and moral symbolism, colloquial diction, and fluid, sometimes choppy syntax. He sets a distinct tone of suffering that is shown through the soldier's needs to be masculine although they are merely boys. There are several instances of figurative language used in the passage. O'Brien uses…

“The Barnacle” conveys the attitude of dedication to and stubbornness for beliefs or lifestyles. The steadfast, unwavering, and focused nature of the barnacle relates to the focus required for any meaningful or purposeful action. Stallings uses personification as one of her main tools in conveying the attitude of the poem. “Though one that doesn’t give a damn” illustrates the use perfectly. When we say someone doesn’t give a damn, we mean that they don’t care about anything other than what they…

Tyche - (a.k.a. Fortuna, Nortia) Tyche comes from the word tynchano which means made to happen. Tyche is goddess the personification of Hope, Luck and Wealth,chance and Fate. She is the daughter of Aphrodite and Zeus or Hermes. Later down the line she was associated with the roman goddess Fortuna a capricious dispenser of good and ill fortune. "Fortuna of health and well-being" and Fortuna Redux "Fortuna the home-bringer". As the Roman Empire was going out of era so to speak Tyche began to be…

we can also explore examples of personification in the third line “the blue stars shiver in the distance". The poet also experienced metaphor when said “The night is starry and the stars are blue and shiver in the distance”. And he used metaphor one more time when saying “The night wind revolves…