personification refers to such a rhetorical device that things (including objects, animals, ideas or abstract concepts) are personified to make them have human appearance, personality or emotion. Personification can be expressed by adjectives, verbs or nouns.
For example:
1. The year 1871 witnessed the heroic uprising of the Paris commune in 1871.
2. Thirsty soil drain in the rain. Hungry soil drinks in the rain.
3.Did you see the anger of the tempest? Did you see the fury of the storm?
4. The flowers nodded in the breeze. The flowers nodded in the breeze.
personification: [nǐ ré n]
1. personification
2. personification
Other related explanations:
<; personify>
Examples and usage:
1. The sun and the moon are often personified in poetry.
2. A rhetorical method in personification literature, such as analogy or personification, Used to achieve a special effect
a literal contribution, such as parallelism or personification, used to reach a specific effect.
3. Address forms directly address people who are not present or fictional or anthropomorphic. Especially as a digression in the process of speech or composition
the direct address of an abstract or imaginative person or of a personalized abstraction, Especially as a digression in the course of a speech or composition.
4. A whirlpool near the Sicilian coast, opposite to Sheila Cave, Personified as a sea monster that devours ships
a whirlpool off the Sicilian coast, Personalized as a ship-devouring sea monster and located opposite the cave of Scylla.
personification
It is called personification to describe things other than people as people and give them actions or thoughts and feelings.
using personification can not only make the things described vivid, but also clearly show the author's feelings for the things described.
personification can be divided into three situations.
A
personifies inanimate objects.
① While singing, the waves rushed into the sky to meet the thunder.
(Gorky's Haiyan)
② Every ridge is so gentle. Although it is covered with precious trees from the foot of the mountain to the top of the ridge, no one is arrogant. (Lao She's Little Flowers Collection)
The tape recorder accepted the hostess's instruction and gave a "beep" and stopped singing. (sound of spring by Wang Meng)
The street is very lively. The tram ran unhurriedly, ringing the bell politely, and jujube was not impatient at all, as if to say, "Excuse me. Uh, excuse me. "
(Yun-yi Zhang's "Going to the Movies for Children")
⑤ At this time, the spring breeze brought the scent of flowers, and all the stars in the sky were blinking and laughing, as if to affirm and encourage Teacher Zhang's beautiful idea ... (Liu Xinwu's "Head Teacher")
⑤ Bundles of manuscript papers poked their heads out from two sacks in the corner ... (Xu Chi's Goldbach conjecture
b
personify living things. For example,
① Just around the short mud wall, there is infinite interest. Oil flies are singing here and crickets are playing the piano here. (From Herb Garden to three pools mirroring the moon by Lu Xun
)
② The birds put their nests among the flowers and leaves, and they became happy. calling friends flaunted his crisp throat and sang a melodious tune, which echoed with the light wind and flowing water. (Zhu Ziqing's Spring)
③ Frogs are singing love songs, and the fragrance of tender pu is scattered in the heating in late spring. (Lao She's Crescent Moon)
④ Sorghum is like teams of "red scarves",
quietly observe the surrounding roads;
Sunflowers shake their heads and smile.
They can't see the red horizon where the sun rises.
Short and tall weeping willows,
stroking fast-maturing crops with pale green leaves;
Dense reeds,
Carefully guarding the wildflowers that secretly open under their feet.
(Guo Xiaochuan's Autumn in Tuanbowa)
⑤ Wind and rain can destroy cherry blossoms, but when it rains, can cherry blossoms also smile? (Yang Shuo's sakura rain)
⑥ Every grass is dancing. (sound of spring by Wang Meng)
In the above examples, the living things such as "oil flies", "crickets", "birds", "frogs", "sorghum", "sunflowers", "weeping willows", "reeds", "cherry blossoms" and "grass" are described as human beings and given to them.
c
personify abstract concepts. For example,
① Capital comes into the world from head to toe with blood in every pore. (Marx's Das Kapital)
② This is called a dogmatic rest, but some comrades call it a wake-up. (Mao Zedong's "Opposing stereotyped Party writing")
③ Your new China, the people's China,
You finally grew, grew and matured in the old China,
You, the giant of the East, were finally born.
("Our Greatest Festival" by He Qifang)
④ The motherland is engaged in the four modernizations,
Science and technology are excited to attend,
Your leader is Mathematics, Science and Culture,
Science, engineering, agriculture and medicine are all your comrades-in-arms and subordinates.
(Let Science and Technology Contribute Talent to the Motherland by Gao Shiqi)
(5) The ice on the glass window has been burnt by the sun, but the snow outside the window is still thick on the ground, and the opposite roof is white. There is no intention of leaving the earth in winter, as if it would last for a long time. (Ai Ju's "Spring in the House")
⑤ Justice was tied to the public,
Truth was blindfolded,
Even the Marshal was framed, and
the Prime Minister died with a grievance.
(On the Waves by Ai Qing)
The above examples describe abstract concepts such as "capital", "dogmatism", "new China", "science and technology", "mathematics and physics", "science and engineering
agriculture and medicine", "winter", "justice" and "truth" as human beings.