When an inanimate object is compared to an animal, it is called personification. When the object is given human characteristics specifically, it is called anthropomorphization.
Railroad is usually a noun, something that a train travels on. Informally, railroad can be used as a verb meaning to push someone into doing something before they can object.
A verb - used with object
part of speech
A simile is a word you use to describe something. If it has the word as or like, comparing one thing to another it is a simile. Sentance: The man jumped like a kangaroo. or The man jumped as high as a kangaroo.
direct object
When an inanimate object speaks in a play, it is called personification. This literary device gives human qualities, such as speech, to non-human entities.
It is called a metaphor when you compare a person to an inanimate object. Metaphors are figures of speech that make a comparison between two unlike things.
The word personification is a noun. Personification is a figure of speech where an inanimate object is given human-like qualities.
comparing something using like, as , or than
Personification is used in figures of speech to give human characteristics to inanimate things. This is done to help give a visual for better understanding or entertainment when communicating.
To give an object human-like qualities.
Yes, of course you idiot. You just have to know how to listen
"The wave approached the surfer with malice in mind," is a sentence that uses a figure of speech. The figure of speech is personification, since the writer is giving human emotions to an inanimate object, a wave.
Yes, it can mean an address of speech (usually to something inanimate or to an allegorical figure or personification or crowd) as well as a mark of punctuation.
Yes. Both personification and a metaphor are rhetorical figures of speech and literary terms. Personification is when something inanimate is given human traits or "personal" traits.
The act of personifying; impersonation; embodiment., A figure of speech in which an inanimate object or abstract idea is represented as animated, or endowed with personality; prosopop/ia; as, the floods clap their hands.
Inanimate is a noun and an adjective. The noun form refers to something that is not alive. The adjective form refers to something that lacks the ability of motion.