Personification: Story Of Inanimate Object

All of the animals are personified because rabbits don’t actually talk, but the writer Richard Adams made them seem almost human. Without personification the story would simple be about rabbits hoping around. Adams also uses foreshadowing in the book. One example of this is when Fiver says, “Oh, Hazel! This is where it comes from!

Throughout history the human figure has been demonstrated in Middle Eastern, Egyptian and Greek sculptures and paintings. Most of these artifacts tend to focus more on humanism than realism due to Rulers and Gods, geographical areas, resources and events thus, giving them the idea for the theme of the art they create. These are the reasons that might explain their commonalities or differences in the representation of the human figure.

Personification is a great way to make the story very lively and exciting. One example of personification, the muttering and growling of the sea breaking on a rocky shore (Connell 19), is a great representation of this device because it adds a mysterious and human-like quality to the sound. That’s what the author was trying to accomplish; a mysterious feeling. Connell effectively used personification because when reading that, it made the sea breaking on the shore seem alive

Personification is used to show what nonhuman objects or things are doing. Connell uses it to tell his readers what a boat’s wake is really representing. He writes, “...the wash from the speeding yacht slapped him in the face” (Connell 19). He wanted to portray that Rainsford was not able to speak or shout at the boat to get anyone's attention.

Using figurative language helps create imagery and enhances the imagination of the readers. The use of personification allows the author to give human like characteristics to non-living things. An example within the story that displayed intense emotion was included this quote,“This set formula, spoken in a kind of lilt, would awaken loud echoes in Tzili’s soul, and their reverberations spread throughout her body” (Appelfeld, p. 275). By adding in this literary device the readers can foreshadow Tzili’s growth throughout the story and how she realizes who she is as an individual and matures into a strong and independent

The U.S. penny has been a standard in our currency system for almost as long as our country has existed as a sovereign nation, but due to inflation, production costs, and the changing times we live in, it is no longer a sustainable unit of currency and only serves to increase our national deficit and waste our time. When the penny was produced for the first time in 1792 by the U.S. Mint, it was made of pure copper, featured a woman with flowing hair, and was inscribed with the words “Liberty”. Since then, the design and composition have changed numerous times to reflect our changing nation. Despite its fading glory, the penny has been kept alive by numerous false lobbying fronts and a stubborn ideology, but

Between the time of the American Revolution and the Civil War the U.S. had no national paper currency. Chartered banks and their privately issued notes proliferated. Countless banks issued paper money in a bewildering variety of denominations and designs—more than ten thousand different kinds by 1860. Counterfeiters flourished amid this anarchy, putting vast quantities of bogus bills into circulation. The Continental was America’s currency. In Stephen Mihm’s, A Nation of Counterfeiters, Mihm weaves a historically based tale of how a shady lot of counterfeiters thrived under the American capitalist system, and then explains how the federal government effectively dismantled the archaic monetary system and in turn ended the counterfeit economy it sustained.

The penny has a lot of history, through the 200 years the penny changed design and value. Based on the article “The Ever-Changing Penny.” The first pennies were minted in 1857, they were very large, larger than a modern day quarter and had different images of the statue of liberty on the front(4). With this example, one can see,there were several visions for the penny before the final product of the Abraham Lincoln penny in 1909. The history of the penny reveals more than just a coin, it exposes a piece of american culture. The penny has influenced our language, giving us a number of idioms, such as “A penny for your thoughts” And “Not one red cent”(4). Despite its cultural influences the penny is under attack currently, the reason? Because making the penny also costs money, more than its worth,in 2011, it costs the U.S. more than 2.4 cents to produce the penny. The History of the One-Cent piece is a curious one. How long it will remain a part of your spending currency is yet

Using anthropomorphism in children’s literature brings in an element of discovery for the child. The child is able to make connections in early childhood to animals with human traits as believable characteristics. Anthropomorphism could be used as building blocks for older children. Literature based upon more vivid and believable animal characters could cause the child to easily identify with the character, while allowing their imagination to take them into the story.

The famous counterfeiter, Benjamin Boyd, was caught red-handed in the making of the front of a 20 dollar bill. Boyd is a talented engraver, his best work was a five-dollar bill that some experts couldn’t tell was fake. Ben father was also an excellent engraver, and wanted his son to be skilled enough to take over the family business, so he set Ben up to study with one of the city's best engravers, and his name was Nat Kinsey. Little did Ben’s father know, Nat Kinsey also cut plates to print counterfeit money. Ben was tempted by the idea of making money and learned quickly from Kinsey. When Ben was twenty he cut his first two plates: the front and the back of a 20 dollar bill.

For Americans firsts 70 years private entities and not the federal government issued paper money. Notes that was printed by the states chartered banks which could of been exchange for gold and silver. From the founding of the United States passage of National Banking Act 8,000 different countries issued currency which created a widely money supply facilitated rampant counterfeiting. By establishing a single national currency the National Banking act eliminated the overwhelming variety of paper money circulating throughout the country and created a system of banks chartered by the federal government rather than by the states. The law also assisted the federal government in financing the Civil War. Before gold and silver was discovered in the west the United States lacked sufficient quantity of precious metals for minting coins. A 1793 law permitted spanish dollars and other foreign coins to be a part of the American monetary system. Foreign coins was not banned until 1857. The highest bill ever produced by the United States Bureau of Engraving and printing was the $100,000 gold certificate. The money was printed between December 18, 1934 and January 9, 1935 with the picture of President Woodrow on the front. The notes wasn’t available to the public they were only use for transaction

The first object I chose is a one dollar bill. Currency blatantly represents wealth, that which Coates describes as coming from the oppression of another. It is also used as a form of payment, showing the price paid by 250 years of people born into slavery. Lastly, with George Washington inscribed on the front and “In God

Personification is a figurative element used to give an inanimate or inhuman object, human features. This is to allow the author to describe an objects quality. Harper Lee uses this profusely in the book. Although when Lee uses personification it not

Lucille Clifton, Mary Oliver, and Pat Mora use personification to create a message about nature in the poems "the earth is a living thing," "Sleeping in the Forest," and "Gold". In the poem "the earth is a living thing" Lucille Clifton uses the quote "is a favorite child", to explain that she says that nature is an extraordinary place. The poem "Sleeping in the Forest" states the quote "she took me back so tenderly". The quote sends a message, that nature is always welcoming. Last but not least, Pat Mora uses personification by writing the quote, "When the sun paints the desert with its gold".

Personification is a figure of speech in which a thing, an idea or an animal is given human attributes. The non-human objects are portrayed in such a way that we feel they have the ability to act like human beings. Personification is the figurative language that is giving the attribute of human beings to animal, an object or a concept. It is sub type of metaphor, an implied comparison in which the figurative term of the comparison is always human being. (Perrine, 1977: 64).