Like other forms of figurative language, personification can make your writing more dynamic. By giving human qualities to inanimate objects, you can uniquely describe situations that will resonate ...

Describing objects as if they are people is a way of making sentences more exciting. This is called personification. For example, Jess's heart is racing at 100 miles per hour. A heart can’t literally ...

With a post title like that, you might be expecting a long and well-written essay....well, as much as I'd like to do that right now, I have to have will power and keep working on "real" work (some ...

Welcome back to English Class. We are still going to operate in the literary ‘realm’ today, based on the interest and questions that the topic we discussed last week – on figures of speech – generated ...

Describing objects as if they are people is a way of making sentences more exciting. This is called personification. In Iain Crichton Smith's short story Home, he uses personification to describe how ...