Analysis Of 'The Breeze Played With His Hair'

She does this in the paragraph 6 when she states, “The squirrels had raced up and down the banks, but they were bold, always. A racoon had been that way, with his feet like sharp-nailed hands” In this sentence Rawlings, uses personification when she states that the squirrels raced up and down the bank by giving them human like qualities through racing. When she talks about the racoon with feet like sharp-nailed hands that is both a simile and an oxymoron because she compares the racoons feet to sharp-nailed hands describing how its feet have grotesque, long claws. The feet that looks like hands is an oxymoron because feet and hands are opposite appendages that are being compared. Because of this, the reader gets a feeling or rodent raccoons with unpleasant claws. The next figurative language is in paragraph 5 when Rawlings says, “He lay, absorbing the fine-dropped rain like a young plant.” This simile makes the reader picture the boy appreciating and taking in the rain much like a plant would. The final figurative language, is also in paragraph 6 when Rawlings says, “the sun had sifted through the branches of the wild cherry” this metaphor compares the sun getting its sunlight to the tree branches as a kitchen sifted could gradually sift powdered

The poets use personification to create a message about nature in the poems "The Earth is a Living Thing," "Sleeping in the Forest," and "Gold" by making the forest seem to be living and breathing like a human. In "The Earth is a living Thing,'' feel her brushing it clean" this in referring to the universe 'brushing' the earths 'hair'. Usually, when a mom brushes its child's hair, it shows that the mother is favoring that child over its other children. This shows that the Earth is one special planet that is loved by the universe. One example of personification in "Sleeping in the Forest" is "I thought the earth remembered me.

Another very well used literary device in this story is personification. Personification is when an inanimate object is given human attributes. In the specific instance

The next stylistic device is personification. By definition personification is to think of or represent as having human qualities or life. Woolf applies this device to

However, a poem could be written without personification and still be great. In this poem the speaker states, “season when the young buttercups and daisies climb up on the mulched bodies of their forebears to wave their flags in the parade” (1096). This stanza is personification because it talks about the buttercups and daisies climbing up. This line of the poem also reminds the reader of soldiers marching in a parade.

"Although There was evening brightness showing through the windows of the bunkhouse, inside it was dusk."(38) That shows how at first the ranch looked great, but Lennie and George were mistaken. "Already the sun had left the valley to go climbing up the slopes of the Gabilan mountains, and the hilltops were rosy in the sun" (99) This also is personification." The light climbed on out the valley, and as it went, the tops of the mountains seemed to blaze with increasing brightness."(99) This personification describes how George came up the valley as if he was the

Personification is the attribution of a personal nature or human characteristics to something nonhuman, or the representation of an abstract quality in human form. To get you attached to the wolves, Mowat personifies them. This mostly starts in Chapter 9

The opening two lines of the passage, “you’ve seen trees bend in a storm…that’s how they save their branches” is a prime example of how Haimon uses both imagery and personification at the same time (35). He is personifying

One example that the author uses hyperbole to bring the story to life is, “James Maxwell let his gaze wander upward. He stared at the shinning metal spaceship. In less than an hour the crowd would be asked to move back. Then they'd watch with pounding hearts as the powerful rocket roared into the sky James Maxwell could feel his own heart beating faster. Very soon, he knew, the rocket would be knifing through

The next literary device used in this short story is personification. Personification shows in the text, "The trees which were already brown and beginning to tremble with a wintery shave." The passage indicates personification because trees do not tremble. Because of this representation, Maupassant is trying to explain what the season and the surroundings are like as well as its effect on the setting.

In “The Pearl” by John Steinbeck, the author utilizes personification to help the reader visualize an event of the story and provides a metaphor to help the understanding of the story. A piece of personification surfaces when the genial villagers come spilling out to participate in the joyous event of Kino finding new wealth and fortune by selling the pearl. As Kino and his neighbors head out to travel to town, “The houses belched people; the doorways spewed out children” (Steinbeck 45). Shortly thereafter, Steinbeck applies a metaphor to clearly paint a picture when the greed of the pearl forces Kino to metamorphose into a savage animal. When transforming, “He [is] an animal now, for hiding, for attacking, and he [lives] only to preserve himself

This can be seen, for instance, in line 13 where Skloot writes, “Now stillness descends…” Here Skloot is describing how the movement of the woman is coming to an end, making the world seem even more still. This is personification, because stillness cannot actually descend. Skloot also uses

Personification, specifically anthropomorphism, has evolved within the English language over the past millenniums. Personification, defined as “the practice of representing a thing or idea as a person” by the Merriam-Webster dictionary, was first used over 30,000 years ago in prehistoric works of art and within various forms of mythology. These art forms and fictional creatures utilize anthropomorphism, a sub-category to personification that deals exclusively with human-like animals. Later in the 1900’s, anthropomorphism became a common practice within children’s stories such as The Cat in the Hat and Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. During its course, personification has become a part of everyday language typically while describing nature and the world around us. Demonstrating the regularity of personification, “the storm raged on” exemplifies how the literary device has become so commonly used that many people forget that they are even using it. Before the evolution of the literary device during the prehistoric age and within children’s stories, personification was primarily used to help humans empathize and connect with or even characterize objects. Now, the development of personification has authorized individuals to view the environment as a scapegoat, diverting blame away from themselves and instead placing guilt upon the inanimate object.

The coach is still being pulled by the horses who are “too broken by the wind and the rain to feel the whip that now and again cracked over their heads”. The writer uses personification to tell us that the horses cannot feel the whip due to the weather, this creates a more vivid image in the reader’s mind as they are given more details such as “the whip cracked”. In addition,

Both imagery and personification are made more effective as literary devices because of the connotation of the words Dickinson choose to use when