Journal: Personification
January 18, 2008
In this assignment, we were instructed to construct a paragraph in which we practice our use of personification. Personification is giving something non-concrete a living characteristic.
Dawn screams upon them. The rising sun embraces their faces with warmth. The morning tells them that the evening has passed. Though they may not know it, their smell is thrown about between columns of entering light. As the group is taken away from the grasp of their comatose that constricted them early in the hours of the morning, they rise awkwardly from the position at which they last night stumbled upon slumber.
In this journal about personification, I used a few examples of giving something concrete or inanimate a living characteristic. In the first sentence, I gave dawn the abiliy to scream. This adds the effect that dawn came much too early, and came upon them quickly. I also gave the rising sun the ability to embrace the faces in the group, just personifying the sun’s ability to radiate it’s warmth to the group.
