Personification

Personification: It is the technique of applying human characteristics, behaviors, or thoughts to abstractions, animals, ideas, and inanimate objects. When moonlight tritely dances on water, it is personified all the same.
An Example from Literature: Emily Dickinson, The Train

I like to see it lap the miles,

And lick the valleys up,

And stop to feed itself at tanks;

And then, prodigious, step

Around a pile of mountains,

And, supercilious, peer

In shanties by the sides of roads;

And then a quarry pare

My Try: The tornado pirouetted on tip-toe, an angry, drunken dancer spinning out of control. She stumbled over rooftops and crashed through trees, flinging lesser objects from her path.
 
Charlie and AnnaBelle Mae heard the swelling whistle of the tornado's approach and screamed frantically at Netty. Netty, on her knees, fists shaking at the sky, either ignored their pleas or couldn't hear them.
 
"She gone wrestle that tornado!" Netty hollered, panicked.

How about writing your own example of personification as a comment? Or tell me what you think will happen next in Netty's ongoing story. I love reading your ideas.

(This blog post is brought to you as a part of the April A to Z Challenge.)

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