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What are some examples of personification?

Personification is a poetic literary device in which non-living things are given human traits. The most common example of personification is when we describe the wind as blowing, or the sun is shining. In this example, the nonliving object (the wind or the sun) is being described as if it were alive and could act on its own accord.

What are the benefits of using personification?

By using personification and giving the floor human-like attributes, the sentence resonates more with the reader, offering a better image of what is happening. Writers use personification as a mean of figurative language to help to establish mood and to build imagery in a piece of writing.

What is the difference between personification and anthropomorphism?

Anthropomorphism is a non-human character behaving in a human-like way. For example, Mickey Mouse is an anthropomorphic mouse. Spongebob Squarepants is an anthropomorphic sponge. In contrast, personification is brief, generally an isolated action or description, and serves to provide a description or add dramatic or poetic effect.

What is the difference between personification and prosopopoeia?

The type of personification discussed here excludes passing literary effects such as "Shadows hold their breath", [1] and covers cases where a personification appears as a character in literature, or a human figure in art. The technical term for this, since ancient Greece, is prosopopoeia. In the arts many things are commonly personified.