PERSONIFICATION by https://padlet.com/fiets_fietsbel/zlnxyloixl7g Moodboard en-us 2018-12-14 07:43:32 UTC 2025-11-15 23:56:59 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/icons/Planets.png WHAT IS PERSONIFICATION fiets_fietsbel https://padlet.com/fiets_fietsbel/zlnxyloixl7g/wish/314554612 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. For example, when we say, “The sky weeps,” we are giving the sky the ability to cry, which is a human quality. Thus, we can say that the sky has been personified in the given sentence.]]> 2018-12-14 07:46:40 UTC https://padlet.com/fiets_fietsbel/zlnxyloixl7g/wish/314554612 SOME EXAMPLES fiets_fietsbel https://padlet.com/fiets_fietsbel/zlnxyloixl7g/wish/314554759
  • Look at my car. She is a beauty, isn’t she?
  • The wind whispered through dry grass.
  • The flowers danced in the gentle breeze.
  • Time and tide wait for none.
  • The fire swallowed the entire forest.

    • ]]>     2018-12-14 07:47:21 UTC https://padlet.com/fiets_fietsbel/zlnxyloixl7g/wish/314554759     THE FUNCTION OF PERSONIFICATION fiets_fietsbel https://padlet.com/fiets_fietsbel/zlnxyloixl7g/wish/314554993 Personification is not merely a decorative device, but serves the purpose of giving deeper meanings to literary texts. It adds vividness to expressions, as we always look at the world from a human perspective. Writers and poets rely on personification to bring inanimate things to life, so that their nature and actions are understood in a better way. Because it is easier for us to relate to something that is human, or which possesses human traits, its use encourages us to develop a perspective that is new as well as creative.]]> 2018-12-14 07:48:22 UTC https://padlet.com/fiets_fietsbel/zlnxyloixl7g/wish/314554993 fiets_fietsbel https://padlet.com/fiets_fietsbel/zlnxyloixl7g/wish/314555387 2018-12-14 07:50:06 UTC https://padlet.com/fiets_fietsbel/zlnxyloixl7g/wish/314555387 fiets_fietsbel https://padlet.com/fiets_fietsbel/zlnxyloixl7g/wish/314555742 2018-12-14 07:51:56 UTC https://padlet.com/fiets_fietsbel/zlnxyloixl7g/wish/314555742