The document discusses personification and apostrophe as figures of speech that give human attributes or qualities to non-living objects or ideas. It provides examples of poems that use personification and apostrophe including poems that address the moon, weekdays, the sun, and food. The examples are used to illustrate how these figures of speech give creative effects to language by associating life and human characteristics to things that are typically non-living.

1. What have you noticed about the
pictures you have just seen?

2. Don’t be in a rush, dear.
Give an answer first.

5. Fantastic
answer!
You’re right.
All these
pictures show
how inanimate
objects are
being
considered and
treated like
human beings.

6. Personification and
apostrophe are figures of
speech that give a creative
effect to our language by
associating life to non-living
objects.

7. Similes and metaphors do the same thing:
they give life to non-living objects.
The only difference is that, personification
gives human attributes to inanimate
objects and abstract ideas, while
apostrophe only addresses them, as if they
are present and alive.

8. 1) Dearest Moon, please shine as bright as her smile
tonight so when I look at you, I’ll feel inspired.
APOSTROPHE
2) The moon smiled at me last night.
PERSONIFICATION

9. 3) Oh, Weekdays! Why must you be
this far away? APOSTROPHE
4) The weekdays are calling me. I can
hear them whisper my name.
PERSONIFICATION

10. APOSTROPHE AND PERSONIFICATION IN POETRY

11. Busy old fool, unruly Sun,
Why do you,
Through windows, and
through curtains, call on
us?
Must to thy motions
lovers’ seasons run?
Saucy pedantic wretch,
The Sun Rising by John Donne
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12. “Oh, stranger of the future!
Oh, inconceivable being!
Whatever the shape of your house,
However you scoot from place to
place,
No matter how strange and
colorless the clothes you may wear,
I bet nobody likes a wet dog either.
I bet everyone in your pub,
Even the children, pushes her
away.”
To a Stranger Born in Some Distant Country Hundreds of Years from Now by Billy Collins
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13. My food loves to prance, to
jump, to dance;
I wait for the time, I wait for
the chance!
Beans and turkey are doing
the twist!
Peas, plumbs, apples or
mangos;
on to the walls, they're
doing the tango!
My Dinner Loves Dancing
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