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Essay & Composition Writing

personification

what is a personification
  

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Personification is the literary device of treating something which is not human as if it had human characteristics. Usually it is a thing or an abstract idea. ) Clear?

  • Personification is the literary device of treating something which is not human as if it had human characteristics.
  • Usually it is a thing or an abstract idea.
  • ) Clear?
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Personification is the literary device of treating something which is not human as if it had human characteristics. Usually it is a thing or an abstract idea. For example:

"Mother Earth is wiser than her children." (Earth is not a mother and it doesn't have children.)

"Hunger had us by the throat and was slowly choking the life out of us." (Hunger doesn't have hands, so it ca

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