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Legal Studies. Political Science. Welcome to Owlcation. Related Articles. By Kelley Marks. It can also refer to the representation of an abstract quality in human form. Human characteristics such as feelings, emotions , appearances, motives and actions can be used to create this literary device. Although the writer describes a quality of some non-human being or object by using human characteristics, the object or the being that is being described does not really possess this characteristic.
For example, a writer can describe a flower by saying that the flower dances in the wind, but what really happens here is that the writer is attributing the human action of dancing to the flower since its movement in the wind is similar to dancing. Given below are some examples of personification. Flowers dancing in the wind. A metaphor is a literary device that makes an indirect comparison between two unrelated things without using connecting words such as like or as.
A metaphor states that one thing is the other unlike a simile , which states that one thing is like another. A metaphor transfers the sense or aspects of one word or phrase to another so that the second word can be understood in a new way.
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