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Definition of Personification
Personification is a type of figurative language in which non-human things are described as having human attributes, as in the sentence, "The rain poured down on the wedding guests, indifferent... read full definition
Personification is a type of figurative language in which non-human things are described as having human attributes, as in the sentence, "The rain poured down... read full definition
Personification is a type of figurative language in which non-human things are described as having human attributes, as in the... read full definition
Key Examples in As I Lay Dying
13. Vardaman
Explanation and Analysis—Addie as Animal:
In Chapter 13, the reader is first introduced to Vardaman's voice. Addie has already died, and the young boy tries to understand her life and death through the personification of animals:
It is as though the dark were resolving him out of his integrity, into an unrelated scattering of components—snuffings and stampings [...] an is different from my is. I see him dissolve—legs, a rolling eye, a gaudy splotching like cold flames—and float upon the dark in fading solution; all one yet neither; all either yet none. I can see hearing coil toward him, caressing, shaping his hard shape—fetlock, hip, shoulder and head; smell and sound.
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