This personification appears in many literature classics as well as poems from 15th century onwards in Europe. As a general rule, this personification is intended to be scary and frightening, so that people can have the proper respect for Death, and value their own lives while it is in process.
It depends on which culture you're talking about. It's personified as nothing in most western countries. A void of eternal darkness where life ceases to exist in any form, even in an afterlife. Meanwhile, Spain has The Day of the Dead which is meant to celebrate the afterlife and the people in it. Death means different things to different people because there's no real, tangible way to know what death is until it happens to us.
It is not true that semantics refers to the field of linguistics that concentrates on language. Semantics is a field of linguistics which refers to the study of the meaning and interpretation of words, phrases and sentences structure. Generally, it focuses on the meaning of the word or words.
Dee wants<span> the old </span>quilts<span> for several reasons but mainly because she </span>wants<span> to display them as part of her "heritage" in her home in the city. She </span>does<span> not believe that they are appreciated in the country with </span>Maggie<span> and Mama because they actually use the </span><span>quilts</span>
1. A participle is formed from a verb, which can be used as an adjective.
2. Rising early because it acts as an adjective and a verb.
3. Making coffee is the gerund because a gerund is a <span>form that is derived from a verb but that functions as a noun. -ing which you get from "making".
4. It should be an subordinate clause, the underlined portion.
