Personification is a figure of speech that authors use to describe human characteristics to a non-human things. It can be an animal, an object, or even an idea. The lines from "The Rime of the Acient Mariner" present Personification by using the verbs <em>came</em> and <em>went, </em>as well as the personal pronoun <em>he </em>, giving human attributes to the sun.
King begins his nobel prize acceptance speech with examples of recent racial violence in the US in lrder to show that the fight for freedom from oppression is not over.
