4.2.4 Personification.
1. Her heart felt as if it were stampeding through her chest. Page 7
This is a personification expression because in this expression we can see how human characteristic of stampeding is imposed to an inanimate thing
which is heart. The non-literal meaning of this expression means that her heart is beating so fast.
2. His wide flat thumb pads ran back and forth across the backs of her knuckles.
Page 12 The figurative expression of personification can be found in this
sentence. The human characteristic of ran back and forth is imposed to an
inanimate thing which is thumb. This expression actually means that the man moved his thumb across the back of the woman knuckles.
3. “Our eyes met across a crowded room.” Page 151
This personification expression shows the human characteristic of meeting with each other is imposed to an inanimate thing as eyes. The real
meaning of this expression is the two people in this sentence is staring at each other
4. “See you in the morning when the sun comes up.” Page 161
This personification expression shows that the human characteristic of comes up is imposed to an inanimate things which is sun. The real meaning
of it is that they will meet again after the sun rises.
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5. If her mojo needed any kind of kick-start to come back out of hiding, she was
pretty certain that was it. Page 191 This expression is a personification expression. It shows how a human
or animate characteristic of hiding is imposed to an inanimate thing which is a mojo or we can say feeling of confidence. The meaning of this expression
actually that the woman lost her feeling of confidence or mojo, not that mojo can actually hide because it is an inanimate thing.
6. “It is,” she said, her fine neck hairs now standing so stiff they were all but
saluting. Page 209 In this expression it can be seen that the human characteristics of
standing and saluting are imposed to an inanimate thing which is the woman’ neck hairs. The real meaning actually that the woman feel so cold, terrified or
nervous that she has goose bumps. 7.
The slow seeping ache that made her bones feel cold. Page 237 This expression is a personification because the human characteristic of
feel is imposed to an inanimate thing which is bones. The actual meaning is that the woman feel cold.
8. But once again it became too much, she was too unaccustomed to
deciphering these feelings bombarding her. Page 238 This personification expression can be seen from the word of
bombarding is imposed to an inanimate thing, feeling. Bombarding is human characteristic. In this expression it is imposed to feeling, which is inanimate
thing. The real meaning of this expression is that the woman is feeling a lot of things.
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4.2.5 Irony
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