Personification and apostrophe

What have you noticed about the pictures you have just seen?

Don’t be in a rush, dear. Give an answer first.

Fantastic answer!

You’re right.

All these pictures show

how inanimate objects are

being considered and

treated like human beings.

Personification and apostrophe are figures of speech that give a creative effect to our language by

associating life to non-living objects.

Similes and metaphors do the same thing:they give life to non-living objects.

The only difference is that, personification gives human attributes to inanimate

objects and abstract ideas, while apostrophe only addresses them, as if they

are present and alive.

1) Dearest Moon, please shine as bright as her smile tonight so when I look at you, I’ll feel inspired.APOSTROPHE

2) The moon smiled at me last night. PERSONIFICATION

3) Oh, Weekdays! Why must you be this far away? APOSTROPHE

4) The weekdays are calling me. I can hear them whisper my name. PERSONIFICATION

APOSTROPHE AND PERSONIFICATION IN POETRY

Busy old fool, unruly Sun,Why do you,Through windows, and through curtains, call onus?Must to thy motions lovers’ seasons run?Saucy pedantic wretch,

The Sun Rising by John DonneRetrieved from: http://literarydevices.net/apostrophe/

“Oh, stranger of the future!Oh, inconceivable being!Whatever the shape of your house,However you scoot from place to place,No matter how strange and colorless the clothes you may wear,I bet nobody likes a wet dog either.I bet everyone in your pub,Even the children, pushes her away.”

To a Stranger Born in Some Distant Country Hundreds of Years from Now by Billy CollinsRetrieved from: http://www.apostropheexamples.com/apostrophe/o-stranger-of-the-futureo-inconceivable-b/1037/

My food loves to prance, to jump, to dance;I wait for the time, I wait for the chance!Beans and turkey are doing the twist!Peas, plumbs, apples or mangos;on to the walls, they're doing the tango!

My Dinner Loves DancingRetrieved from: http://examples.yourdictionary.com/humorous-examples-of-personification-in-poetry.html