137. Personification
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This section is from the book "Two Years' Course In English Composition", by Charles Lane Hanson. Also available from Amazon: Two Years' Course In English Composition.
137. Personification
When metaphor and metonymy ascribe personality to things inanimate, they become personification. For example:
The storm rages.
The ship has found herself.
Must I thus leave thee, Paradise ?
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