Question

What are examples of personification using the words rock, house and snowstorm?

Answer 1

Hint: A figure of speech in which an idea or thing is given human characteristics and/or emotions, or is spoken of as if it were human, is known as personification. Personification is a form of metaphor in which nonhuman objects are given human characteristics.

Complete answer:
As we know, personification is a figure of speech that is used to compare human characteristics with non-human objects.
Since personification depends on the reader's imagination to comprehend, this is an efficient use of figurative words. Of course, readers understand that nonhuman things cannot feel, act, or think in the same way that humans do. Personifying nonhuman objects, on the other hand, can be a fun, imaginative, and powerful way for a writer to convey an idea or make a point.

Some examples of Personification are:
My alarm screamed at me this morning.
(Here, the act of screaming is a human characteristic and cannot be performed by an alarm, but it is used here in a sense of the alarm ringing loudly.)
My phone died.
(Here, dying is a human characteristic but is used for a nonliving object in this case in the sense that it switched off.)

Examples of Personification using the word:
i) Rock: The rock jumped in my way out of nowhere.
(Jumping is the human characteristic used for rock here)
ii) House: The old house stood strong even in the heavy rains.
(Standing is the human characteristic used for houses here.)
iii) Snowstorm: The snowstorm trampled the town.
(Trampling is the human characteristic used for snow storms here.)

Note:
i) Because of their basic similarity, personification and anthropomorphism are often confused. There is, however, a distinction between these two literary instruments.
ii) Anthropomorphism applies to the transfer of human attributes or virtues to animals or deities rather than inanimate artifacts or abstract concepts.
iii) Anthropomorphism is a literary device that enables an animal or deity to act like a human.