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Word Choice, Imagery, Theme and Style
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A form of metaphor in which human characteristics are attributed to nonhuman things. Personification offers the writer a way to give the world life and motion by assigning familiar human behaviors and emotions to animals, inanimate objects, and abstract ideas; for example, when you have the sea breathe, the heavens gaze down, the wind caress, nature whisper, speak or mourn, flames dance, the wind sings a tune etc. William Shakespeare used personification in Romeo and Juliet in the lines "Arise, fair sun, and kill the envious moon,/ Who is already sick and pale with grief." Here, the moon is portrayed as being envious, sick, and pale with grief — all markedly human qualities.
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