Personification In The Short Story 'Red' By Michael Hall

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.

Personification is also prevalent within the short story. For example, “Wen Fu was winking at Peanut, his ink-brush eyebrows dancing” (127). Describing Wen Fu’s eyebrows with human actions, Tan displays his lively and expressive eyes which were one of his charming traits that caught the attention of Peanut and her

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

"'From where I am,' the sun said, 'I can see the Soul of the World.'" (Coelho page #149) This is an example of personification because the sun is speaking to Santiago. I believe the author wrote this to show that only something as large, powerful, and far away as the sun is capable of seeing the entire Soul of the World.

(iii.) ‘Scarred old floor’ is a personification because it is a direct comparison of human characteristics to something nonhuman, or the representation of an abstract quality in human

Another example of personification is used when Ishmael describes the sky, at night, when traveling with this group. He notes one night that “at night it felt as if we were walking with the moon. It followed us under thick clouds and waited for us at the other end of dark forest paths. It would disappear with sunrise but return again, hovering on our path, the next night. Its brightness became dull as nights passed.

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.

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.

Personification is a figurative element used to give an inanimate or inhuman object, human features. This is to allow the author to describe an objects quality. Harper Lee uses this profusely in the book. Although when Lee uses personification it not

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

    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.

For example, personification is an important element in the short story. The “Evil Eye” is the prime object being personified. The narrator loathed the old man’s eye, which led to the murder. “And this I did for seven long nights -- every night just at midnight -- but I found the eye always closed; and so it was impossible to do the work; for it was not the old man who vexed me, but his Evil Eye” (Poe 1). The “Evil Eye” was given human traits in the

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

Within both novels there is a wide use of personification. For example, in Hard Times, chapter 1 “his very neck cloth, trained to take him by the throat with an unaccommodating grasp” this gives a neck cloth a very human like characteristic. It’s telling us that his neck cloth has an extremely tight grip. However, the author uses personification to describe it and make it sound purposeful. The effect of this gives the reader more imagination by giving the cloth human like traits.

some of the more subtle ways of showing the theme of people making insignificant concepts important to themselves are characterization and setting. firstly, the characterization of algernon is the most obvious instance of using characterization to portray the theme. algernon is concerned with fruitless social rituals that re a hindrance to others'