Personification:
A figure of speech wherein objects of nature, animals, inanimate objects or abstract ideas are treated as if they had a personality and were human beings. Examples:
- The sea was singing songs.
- The river glideth at his own sweet will.
- The Ant said to the Grass-hopper.
- The parrot sang sweet songs.
- Melancholy marked him for her own.
- Death lays his icy hands on kings.
Personification is usually expressed:
Through Verbs: Express feelings or actions connected with human beings.
- The very walls will cry out against it.
- The grey-eyed morn smiles on the frowning night.
- Anxiety is sitting on his face.
- Earth felt the wound.
- Woods rejoiced and welcomed him.
- Mute nature mourns her worshipper.
Through Adjectives:
The raging storm, the angry sea, the hungry shore, the smiling land, the blushing rose, the sullen sky, the remorseless heat, furious waves, pitiless cold, etc.
