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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
23. Death
Explanation and Analysis—Loving Death:
The tragedy of Elizabeth's life comes to a close in "Death," when the reader sees firsthand the connection between Elizabeth and Doctor Reefy and their experience with loss: both characters have lived their lives in close proximity to death, Elizabeth because of her chronic illness and the doctor because of the loss of his wife. In the following passage, Anderson personifies Death as a character in its own right:
Elizabeth had put it there a week after her marriage, breaking the plaster away with a stick. Then she got one of the workmen her husband was at that time employing about the hotel to mend the wall. “I jammed the corner of the bed against it,” she had explained to her husband, unable at the moment to give up her dream of release, the release that after all came to her but twice in her life, in the moments when her lovers Death and Doctor Reefy held her in their arms.
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