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Find the example of personification in the following quotation. From Of Mice and Men, by John Steinbeck: |
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'The red light dimmed on the coals.' |
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'Up the hill from the river a coyote yammered...' |
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'The sycamore leaves whispered in a little night breeze.' |
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'The bunk house was a long, rectangular building.' |
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Find the example of personification in the following quotation. From To Kill a Mockingbird, by Harper Lee: |
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'Suddenly I noticed that the men were backing away from Miss Maudie's house.' |
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'The fire...had eaten its way to the roof.' |
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'Smoke was rolling off our house...like fog off a riverbank.' |
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'Another fire truck appeared and stopped in front of Miss Stephanie Crawford's.' |
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Find the example of personification in the following quotation. From 'On the Dark Height of Jura', by Percy Bysshe Shelley: |
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'Ghosts of the dead! have I not heard your yelling' |
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'When o'er the dark aether the tempest is swelling' |
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'For oft have I stood on the dark height of Jura which frowns on the valley...' |
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'O father! thy voice seems to strike on mine ear' |
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Find the example of personification in the following quotation. From 'April Rain Song', by Langston Hughes: |
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'The rain makes still pools on the sidewalk' |
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'The rain makes running pools in the gutter' |
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'The rain plays a little sleep song on our roof at night' |
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'And I love the rain.' |
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Find the example of personification in the following quotation. From 'Awaking in New York', by Maya Angelou: |
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'Children sleep, exchanging dreams with seraphim' |
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'The city drags itself awake on subway straps' |
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'I, an alarm, awake as a rumour of war' |
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'Lie stretching into dawn' |
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Find the example of personification in the following quotation. From 'Chain of Pearls', by Rabindranath Tagore: |
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'Mother, I shall weave a chain of pearls for thy neck' |
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'The stars have wrought the chains of night to deck thy feet' |
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'Wealth and fame come from thee' |
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'And it is for thee to give or to withhold them' |
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Find the example of personification in the following quotation. From 'De Profundis', by Elizabeth Barrett Browning |
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'The cold before my summer's done' |
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'And tender friends go sighing round' |
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'And here, with hope no longer here, while the tears drop, my days go on' |
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'The heart which, like a staff, was one for mine to lean and rest upon' |
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Find the example of personification in the following quotation. From 'Fall, Leaves, Fall', by Emily Bronte |
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'Fall, leaves, fall; die, flowers, away' |
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'Lengthen night and shorten day' |
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'Every leaf speaks bliss to me' |
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'Fluttering from the autumn tree' |
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Find the example of personification in the following quotation. From 'Asleep', by Wilfred Owen |
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'Under his helmet, up against his pack' |
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'After so many days of work and waking' |
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'Sleep took him by the brow and laid him back' |
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'There, in the happy no-time of his sleeping' |
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Find the example of personification in the following quotation. From a film review, by Stella Papamichael, of Ocean's Twelve: |
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'As luxuriously slick as the warm vat of hair wax that went into its making...' |
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'George Clooney, along with his well-groomed gang of merry thieves...' |
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'Lounge like catalogue models...' |
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'This sequel drags its heels' |
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