Test prep 2

A type of figure of speech is called personification.

Personification is a type of metaphor in which human characteristics are given to something inanimate, animal, or abstract.

An example of personification is "The sun kissed the flowers." The sun is given the human characteristic of kissing.

Here is an example of personification in a poem:

The Railway Train

I like to see it lap the miles,
And lick the valleys up,
And stop to feed itself at tanks;
And then, prodigious, step

Around a pile of mountains,
And, supercilious, peer
In shanties by the sides of roads;
And then a quarry pare

To fit its sides, and crawl between,
Complaining all the while
In horrid, hooting stanza;
Then chase itself down the hill

And neigh like Boanerges;
Then, punctual as a star,
Stop - docile and omnipotent -
At its own stable door.

-Emily Dickinson

 

True or false: Is this following sentence an example of personification?: Or sinking as the light wind lives or dies. 

 

True or false: Is the following sentence an example of personification?: The assignment was a breeze.