Early Inklings Research Paper

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

Personification is used to show what nonhuman objects or things are doing. Connell uses it to tell his readers what a boat’s wake is really representing. He writes, “...the wash from the speeding yacht slapped him in the face” (Connell 19). He wanted to portray that Rainsford was not able to speak or shout at the boat to get anyone's attention.

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.

Question 2 Two lines that are examples of personification in the poem potsu-potsu by Lily Roland are ‘heralding the dashing downpour’ and the groaning bridge struggles to stand tall and strong’. This is used in the first line where it says heralding and dashing as rain dose not dash and thunder dose not herald. In the second line it can be seen when it says groaning bridge as a bridge dose not groan. The use of personification

The author uses personification in the passage “And the meter was running; even as we reclined in our tents we were using up precious gas.” (284). I think he includes lots of personification because he loves to compare human characteristics to non living objects since we know how it physically feels to do human characteristics. In this case, he says the meter is running and when we think of running, we know how it feels to have our heartbeat feel. Overall, he plays with his language to make sure that we are bored of the passage and we can feel the setting in the story.

In the novel The Watsons Go to Birmingham - 1963 by Christopher Paul Curtis the author uses personification when he writes “The lights knocked some of the darkness out of the way and we felt safe again.” (pg. 97). With this metaphor the author is comparing the car to a fighter and the headlights are his fists knocking the dangers out of their way. With this personification the author is showing how fearful and threatened the Watsons feel at the rest stop in Appalachia. The Watson’s are afraid that if the people in the Appalachian “caught [them] out here like this they’d hang [them]” (pg. 96). During 1963 this is a realistic fear. The author’s use of descriptive language and personification helps to bring this fear to life in his novel.

The use of imagery allows the reader to picture the long-lasting emotions gripping the narrator. Being a concrete representation of an object or sensory experience (myLearning), imagery permits the reader to visualize what the narrator is experiencing. One example of imagery is used in line 5 “I'm stone. I'm flesh.” The narrator is using metaphoric and literal imagery describing his body. The reader can visualize the attempt to harden the body against the onslaught of emotion, and the reflection of the vulnerable flesh body in the granite wall. Another example of imagery can be found in lines 22 through 24 “Brushstrokes flash, a red bird's / wings cutting across my stare. / The sky. A plane in the sky." Here the realistic memories of war involuntarily flash through the narrator’s mind.

The poem itself has many examples of personification all throughout the stanzas, suggesting that the speaker highly connects the vacuum to his wife and her demise, as well as to his ordeal after losing her; “the vacuum cleaner sulks

2. Hyperbole is the use of over-exaggeration to make a point. Find and write down the quote from Jilly Dos Santos that employs hyperbole. Does this line effectively communicate her feelings about the situation she faced? Why or why not?

He utilizes embodiment to portray how "spans shake with fear" (L. 2) from the weight of the numerous autos and trucks that movement over them. Despite the fact that in lines 5-6 "… trains go with windows sparkling/Like a grin loaded with teeth", the peruser is left thinking about whether that grin is an inviting grin or covers a less agreeable inclination. Another embodiment utilized by the artist is: "I have seen machines eating houses/And stairways walk independently from anyone else." (L. 7-8) These two pictures have the impact of influencing the machines to appear to assume control from the people and "living"

“Slowly, his thoughts quieted and his eyes settled. He was in a wooden cell, about the length of a man and not much wider than his shoulders. Over his head was a thatched roof, about seven feet up. The only window was a hole, about a foot square, in the door. The floor was strewn with gravel, dirt, and wiggling maggots, and the room hummed with flies and mosquitos, already beginning to swarm onto him. There was a hole in the floor with a latrine bucket below it the air hung hot and still, oppressive with the stench of human waste.” (page 174)

There is plenty of figurative language in this poem, which adds to the poem’s richness. There are several metaphors: “loaded gun” (which I think is a metaphor for life), “Vesuvian face” (volcano), and “Yellow eye” (which I am not sure about), “Yellow Eye” and “emphatic Thumb,” which stand for some kind of weapon. Personification is

    Many authors use the personification of inanimate objects to symbolize the feelings and expressions of their characters. One example of this is in John Cheever’s short story, "The Enormous Radio." Although critics argue that the characteristics of the radio are the opposite of those of Jim and Irene Westcott, the radio actually reflects the couple’s life.

Personification is a figure of speech in which a thing, an idea or an animal is given human attributes. The non-human objects are portrayed in such a way that we feel they have the ability to act like human beings. Personification is the figurative language that is giving the attribute of human beings to animal, an object or a concept. It is sub type of metaphor, an implied comparison in which the figurative term of the comparison is always human being. (Perrine, 1977: 64).