An Introduction to Poetry - Poetic Techniques: Personification
Personification Giving the qualities of a person to an animal, an object, or an idea.
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PERSONIFICATION GIVING THE QUALITIES
OF A PERSON TO AN ANIMAL, AN OBJECT,
OR AN IDEA.
Onomatopoeia The use of words
that mimic sounds.
SymbolismSomething that stands for
or suggests something else through a relationship,
association, convenience, or accidental resemblance
Verbal Ironywords that convey a meaning that is the
opposite of its true/literal meaning.
Situational Irony
An event opposite to that which is actually supposed to occur.
Which is it? Why?
My computer throws a fit every time I try to use it.
PERSONIFICATION!
Which is it? Why?
Onomatopoeia
Which is it? Why?
Symbolism
Which is it? Why?
Two animal rights activists were protesting the cruelty of sending pigs to a slaughterhouse in Bonn. Suddenly the pigs, all two thousand of them, escaped through a broken fence and stampeded, trampling the two hapless protesters to death.
IRONY
CRAZY!