Thursday, May 24, 2012

Personifaction

Personifaction: giving a person that isn't a human a human's features.

Ex:

The signifigance of personifaction in poetry is important because you are describing a non-human a regular human's features which makes reading poetry very interesting and creative. Without personification animals or plants or objects wouldn't be able to talk like humans or act like humans. Also, it makes reading poetry very fun and you are actually motivated to read the poem.

Ex:

Dinnertime Chorus

The teapot sang as the water boiled
The ice cubes cackled in their glass
the teacups chattered to one another.
While the chairs were passing gas
The gravy gurgled merrily
As the oil danced in a pan.
Oh my dinnertime chorus
What a lovely, lovely clan!

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