Personification: A figure of speech that gives human qualities to abstract ideas, animals, and inanimate objects. It affects the reader by creating empathy, and allows the reader to associate with the poem and the message in it e.g. “In its china blue…
The book Nanberry written by Jackie French shows, the lake of respect the white settlers gave the Aboriginals. ‘The warriors yelled a challenge again. The white ghosts laughed, then looked away. Colbee muttered something to the other warriors. They melted back into the trees, urging the women and children to follow.’ (p.3) Personification is used to describe how the aboriginal warriors disappeared in embarrassment into the tree’s/ after the white settlers laughed at them as they were powerless against them. The white settlers have no respect for the aboriginal warriors, laughing at them as the warriors yelled a challenge. As if they were powerless against them.…
Personification is a figure of speech in which an object or animal is given human feelings, thoughts, or attitudes. Cite an example of Longfellow's use of personification in "The Tide Rises, The Tide Falls." "But the sea, the sea in darkness calls;…
7. Longfellow uses personification in the second stanza by saying “The little waves, with their soft, white hands efface the footprints in the sands…”…
When used and executed properly they can help a reader visualize a scene or setting. Connell did a fantastic job of crafting and placing personifications throughout his story. In the beginning of the text, the author expresses the sound of the sea by saying that it mutters and growls (Connell, 19). The author represents the low and eerie noise of the sea to the sounds that a living thing might make, which helps the reader better imagine the scene and relate to the text by thinking about a more relative subject. Later in the text the main character, Rainsford, mentioned that hunger was picking at him (Connell, 20). This is an effective use of personification because Richard Connell helps portray Rainsfords intense hunger by relating it to a living thing that is “picking at him.” This helps deepen the reader's perspective and sympathy for the character. The author uses personifications very nicely throughout his text, given the following examples, and effectively uses them to connect the reader to the plot and…
Here’s an example of personification: Without waiting for breakfast, Rikki-tikki ran to the thorn bush, where Darzee was singing a song of triumph at the top of his voice (para 61). “Nag is dead—is dead—is dead!” sang Darzee (para 63). This is personification because, in real life, animals do not sing out of happiness or relief. Animals do not sing at all. This proves the theme because Nag being dead, Darzee won’t be afraid anymore around the garden. It’s one last thing to not worry about. He gets to protect his beloved eggs without fear. Furthermore, the story stated “Give me the egg, Rikki-tikki. Give me the last of my eggs, and I will go away and never come back,” she said, lowering her hood (para 93). In a real life situation, if you were an animal in the wild, and someone had your baby in their possession, you would do anything in your ability to get it back. Real animals would not try to talk and convince the animal to give them their own back. Real animals would fight their enemy for their property. This proves the theme because Nagaina wants what she loves back and she had the courage to sacrifice her plans of being “queen of the garden”. This shows how Rudyard Kipling demonstrates how the character traits in the animals are…
The story begins when the rocket has just exploded and the crew is falling through space. They have space suits on, so they can breathe and talk to one another through a radio. They estimate that they have an hour or so to speak to one another before they drift too far apart. Hollis, the main character, is falling towards the Earth, while the Captain is falling towards the moon. They are all scared and Hollis kills one man who starts screaming uncontrollably because they cannot talk to one another on the radio while he screams. As they talk, at first they try to calm each other down, but then some of them become mean. Applegate tries to hurt Hollis by saying that he destroyed his career and Hollis lashes out at Lespere when he reminisces about the fulfilling life he has had. Afterwards, Applegate apologizes to Hollis and Hollis realizes that he has led an empty life. He wishes that he could do something to make up for it by helping someone. When he falls through the Earth‘s atmosphere he burns up like a meteor and a boy in Illinois thinks he is a falling star. His mother tells him to make a wish.…
Throughout history the human figure has been demonstrated in Middle Eastern, Egyptian and Greek sculptures and paintings. Most of these artifacts tend to focus more on humanism than realism due to Rulers and Gods, geographical areas, resources and events thus, giving them the idea for the theme of the art they create. These are the reasons that might explain their commonalities or differences in the representation of the human figure.…
Examples of personification include “We are Africville” and “I am Africville”. This is personification because they cannot really be “Africville”; this is because Africville is not a person, or an adjective usually appropriate to be paired with humans. However in this case the author does it quite well. For example comparing “I am tired” to “I am Africville” one can quickly tell that this is a personification on Africville, in the sense of making Africville an adjective describing who they/she are/is respectively. To be Africville, in this case would be someone conveying their sense of pride and attachment to their beloved former town, to carry with them the unforgettable, unforgivable past that was eviction of their town.…
Photorealism originated in the United States in the mid-1960s in the wake of the Vietnam War. It is an international art movement involving the precise reproduction of a photograph in paint or the replicating of real objects in sculpture. The name Photorealism (also known as Hyperrealism or Superrealism) was coined in reference to those artists whose work depended heavily on photographs, which they often projected onto canvas allowing images to be replicated with precision and accuracy. Photorealism complicates the concept of realism by successfully mixing together that which is real with that which is unreal to a degree not previously achieved prior to it. The exactness was often facilitated further by the use of an airbrush, which was originally designed to retouch photographs. Being entirely representational, photorealism art is a natural counter to contemporary abstraction. Therefore, their canvases remain distanced from reality, both literally and figuratively.…
Ernst Gombrich’s The Limits of Likeness touches upon the influence of artists’ styles in their works. This particular author refers to art in the representational sense in his story of the German and French painters in the beginning. Although the Germans attempted to prove their skill by painting the same subject, they fell prisoner to their individual styles, and each turned out slightly different. Each artist was attempting to recreate, or represent, the Roman scene. In addition, the author believes that an artist can only render what his tools and medium allow. For example, an artist holding a fine pencil will search out lines when attempting to render a scene, while one holding a coarse brush will look in terms of masses. Another concern is the difference between what an artist’s eyes sees and what he perceives. A photograph taken from the point of view of an artist would seem to represent what the artist saw when he looked at the landscape. However, it actually is a representation of what the artist perceives, after taking in the entire scene and painting how he imagines it. This is why no two paintings can be the same, even if painted from the same point of view. Yet another point Gombrich touches upon is the fact that in the early times, such as the 15th century, artists were not concerned with representing an exact replica in regards to book illustrations. They were more concerned with the reader simply understanding that they were attempting to show a city, but not a particular city. The final observation of art the author chooses to make involves painting what one knows. He claims, with adequate proof, that an artist will paint what he or she already knows. The artists will paint what is familiar, and rightly so. If their audience is one that is only familiar with one type of tree, for instance, painting a different type would confuse them, and the purpose of the tree would be void. He asks the question of how much we see is affected by our habits and…
To start with, this story is full of sea imagery. The story starts off with children playing on a beach and notices something floating about in the sea. When the object eventually floats upun the shore, the children immediately starts to play with it. The object is described as a whale, a ship, and then a nasty sea monster. When Estebans body floated upon shore they removed the seaweed, jelly fish tentacles, and the remains of fish. We were told that he had the smell of the sea about him. The women of the town used a sail to make him a shirt. The women also stated that if he were alive “he would have had so much authority that he could have drawn fish out of the sea by simply calling their names”. Later within the story, the women imagine “his soft pink sea lion hands” as he “stretched out like a sprem whale”. This drowned man is clearly known as an object of the sea. He comes from the sea in the beginning and eventually ends up back in the sea. The relationship of the drowned man to the sea initiates his role as a supernatural mythical creature that didn’t belong on earth as a human being.…
Personification - A figure of speech which gives animals/ideas/inanimate objects human traits or abilities. “Because I could not stop for Death--He kindly stopped for me—“ Dickinson, “Because I could not stop for Death”…
The author also uses personification when talking about the fish's “wavering ribbons”. The author calls those ribbons “a five-haired beard of wisdom” (line 63). The fishing lines that hang from the fish's mouth are indeed a five-haired beard of wisdom, because each “hair” represents a near death experience in which the fish learned something. This fish perseverance shows in each one of these…
Personification a figure of speech which endows inanimate objects with human traits or abilities, prime example within the lyrics is “She expected the world, but it flew away from her reach” (1st verse, 2nd line), this sentence shows how the inanimate object has flew away from her reach.…
