Even from school, we all heard about such a thing as personification. What is it? Many have probably forgotten. What is this literary trail, what is it used for and what is characteristic of it. Now we will try to recall and understand this issue in more detail.
Impersonation: Definition, Detailed Description
Often this literary method is used in fairy tales. Impersonation is the imparting of thoughts, feelings, feelings, speech or actions to phenomena, inanimate objects and animals.
Thus, objects can move independently, nature is a living world, and animals speak in human voices and are able to think in the way that only people can do in reality. The origin of the personification dates back to the ancient world, when everything was based on myths. It is in myths that talking animals are first encountered, as well as giving things uncharacteristic for them properties. At the same time, one of the main tasks of personalization is to approximate the abilities of the inanimate world to those that are characteristic of the living.
Impersonation Examples
You can more clearly understand the essence of personification by giving a few examples:
- The wind howls (in fact, the wind cannot howl, but with the help of this personification its loud noise is described).
- The willow is crying (the willow is a tree, and therefore can not cry, this is just a description of its branchy flexible branches, which are reminiscent of a relentless tear).
- A guitar is playing (the guitar itself cannot play, it just makes sounds when someone plays it).
- Nature fell asleep (a phenomenon when the street is quiet and calm, they call it a sleepy state of nature, although it cannot sleep, in fact the wind just does not blow, and it seems like everything around is bewitched by a dream).
- Thunder swept through the sky (he doesn’t have a trolley to ride on it; in fact, there was a thunder that spread in space).
- The dense forest became thoughtful (calmly and silently in the forest, which supposedly characterizes his thoughtfulness and gloom).
- A goat sits in a sheaf (he eats hay with his head down and without tearing it away, and not literally sat in a sheaf and sits in it).
- Winter has come (she, in fact, cannot walk, just another time of the year has come. Moreover, the verb “come” is also a personification).
What part of speech is personification
What does it mean?
The personification (a word that gives objects revival) is often a verb that can appear both before and after the noun, which it describes, more precisely, puts it into action, animates it and gives the impression that an inanimate object can also fully exist like a man. But this is not just a verb, but a part of speech that takes on a lot more functions, transforming speech from ordinary to bright and mysterious, unusual and at the same time able to tell a lot about characterization of personification.
Personalization as a literary trail
Literature is the source of the most colorful and expressive phrases that animate phenomena and objects. In another way, in literature this trail is also called personalization, embodiment or anthropomorphism, metaphor or humanization. It is often used in poetry to create a more complete and melodic form. To make fairy-tale characters more heroic and reason to admire them, personification is often also used. That this is a literary tool, that any other, such as an epithet or allegory, all serve to embellish phenomena, to create a more impressive reality. It is enough to consider only a simple literary phrase: "Night bloomed with golden lights." How much poetry and harmony are in it, the flight of thought and reverie, the colorfulness of the word and the brightness of the expression of thought.
One could simply say that stars are burning in the night sky, but such a phrase would be full of banality. And just one single personification can radically change the sound of all, it would seem, familiar and understandable phrases. In addition, it should be noted that the personification as part of the literature appeared due to the desire of the authors to bring the description of the characters of folklore closer to the heroism and greatness of those mentioned in ancient Greek myths.
The use of personification in everyday life
We hear examples of avatars and use them in everyday life almost daily, but we don’t think about what they are. Should they be used in speech or is it better to avoid it? At its core, incarnations are mythopoetic in nature, but over the long period of their existence they have become an integral part of ordinary everyday speech. It all started with the fact that during the conversation they began to use quotes from poems and other literary works, which gradually turned into familiar phrases for everyone. It seems to be the usual expression "the clock is in a hurry" is also an embodiment. It is used both in everyday life and in written speech and literature, and is actually a typical personification. Fairy tale and myth are the main sources, in other words, the foundation of those metaphors that are used in conversation today.
Reincarnated Avatar
What it is?
This statement can be explained in terms of the evolution of personification. In ancient times, personification was used as a religious-mythological device as a
means of expression . Now it is used to transfer the abilities of living beings to inanimate objects or phenomena and is used in verse. That is, personalization gradually acquired a poetic character. Nowadays, there are many disputes and conflicts about this, because experts from different scientific fields interpret the character of personification in their own way. A reincarnated or ordinary personification still has not lost its significance, although it is described from different points of view. Without it, it is difficult to imagine our speech and, in fact, modern life.