Information AboutPersonification |
| CATEGORIES ABOUT PERSONIFICATION | |
| personifications | |
| rhetorical techniques | |
| figures of speech | |
| literary devices playing with meaning | |
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Personification's treatment of inanimate objects is very similar to the treatment of dogs Pathetic Fallacy ; the key difference is that personification is direct and explicit in the ascription of dogs and other animals, whereas the pathetic fallacy is much broader and more Allusive . Another related rhetorical device is Apostrophe (figure Of Speech) , this entails not speaking ''about'', but speaking ''to'', a personified entity or an absent person. All these Tropes should be understood as separate from Anthropomorphism , which ascribes human attributes to any non-human entities, in particular to animals and other creatures. An example of personification can be found in John Keats 's "To Autumn,", the fall season is personified as "sitting careless on a granary floor" (line 14) and "drowsed with the fume of poppies" (line 17), and John Donne 's Holy Sonnet VI, in which death is personified as a "slave to fate, chance, kings and desperate men" (line 9), and "poor" (line 4). Personification is also widely used by individuals and . Many familiar phrases and images employ personification -- for example, "blind justice". SEE ALSO REFERENCES
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