An example of personification is:
I placed a jar in Tennessee, / . . . It made the slovenly wilderness / Surround that hill (Stevens, "The Anecdote of the Jar")
The correct option is A.
Personification is the representation of things in human qualities or nature in abstract terms.
In the above lines from the poem "The Anecdote of the Jar" by Wallace Stevens the jar has been personified as a symbol of technology and humanity and Tennessee is a symbol of nature and wilderness. The poem is about the struggles and hardships which a human undergoes to overcome the wilderness. The human-made creation like jar restricts the intensity of the wilderness as humans control nature.
1- simile
explanation: it is relating the person to the feather, both being light, while using LIKE or AS. it is still giving the person its own identity while comparing it.
2- metaphor
explanation: it is immediately calling the girl a rocket ship, without LIKE or AS, meaning it’s relating her to it without giving the girl her own identity.
3- simile
explanation: it is relating the person to a diamond, both being shiny, while using LIKE or AS. it is still giving the person its own identity while comparing it.
4- allusion
explanation: it is indirectly referring the person’s dancing to another identity who dances as well.
5- personification
explanation: it is comparing the parking place to something non-human, as a way to express the person’s feelings about it more.
Answer:
Under the astonished, wide-eyed moon, with the fires casting strange shadows upon these towering figures, I am rather inclined to believe him.
Explanation:
Unlike the second to last sentence (right before the above written), this sentence gives the moon traits that a person would have. The second to last sentence (the one with "They walk") only <em>tells</em> the personification rather than <em>shows</em>.
Answer:
ethos
Explanation:
The reason its ethos is because its asking for credibility
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