Question

Personification is a literary technique where the writer gives human qualities to inanimate objects/nature. Find and write down two sentances which use this device.

Answer 1

“No night is now with hymn or carol blessed.

Therefore the moon, the governess of floods,

Pale in her anger, washes all the air,

That rheumatic diseases do abound”. In this excerpt from Shakespeare´s A midsummer night´s dream, he makes use of the moon as character thus personifying this celestial body.

"Her heart was divided between concern for her sister, and resentment against all the others." In this fragment from Austen´s Pride and prejudice, she personifies the heart and makes it adopt certain human emotions that, obviously, pertain not to the heart itself but to the character in question, which is Elizabeth.