Personification consists in giving the attributes of a human being to an animal, an object or a concept. It is really a subtype of metaphor, an implied comparison in which the figurative term of the comparison is always a human being. Closely related to personification is apostrophe, which consists in addressing someone absent or dead or something nonhuman as if that person or things were present and alive and could reply to what is being said.
Read David Mason's Song of the Powers.
In stanzas 1 through 3 the pome employs personification to convey the attitude of each element - stone, paper, and scissors - to its own unique power. Why is having the elements speak in their own voices more effective than if their viewpoints were merely described?
Does the speaker of the poem agree with what the individual elements say?
What does the final stanza say about the nature of power? Is physical power finally destructive or affirmative?
Read John Keats' Bright Star.
The speaker repeats "still" (13). What relevant denotations does the word evoke, and how does the repetition add intensity and meaning to this apostrophe?
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