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GCSE English Language · key term
Giving human qualities or actions to something non-human.
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Revise: Analysing languagePersonification: ‘stumbling’ gives the engine an awkward human movement. Later, the dusk has ‘crept’ into the woodland, suggesting a quiet, gradual arrival.
Giving something non-human human qualities or actions.
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Giving something non-human a human quality or action.
Describing something non-human as having human qualities or actions.
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Giving something non-human human characteristics or behaviour.
The presentation of something non-human as having human qualities or actions.
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Language that gives human qualities or actions to something non-human.
Revise: Analysing languageThe personification of the wind as “our friend” imagines a natural force becoming helpful. Yet the modal verb “may” makes that hope uncertain.
Giving a non-human thing a human action or quality.
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Language that gives something non-human human qualities or behaviour.
Giving human characteristics to something non-human.
