Transcript Personification The City of Ember

The City of Ember
CHAPTER 5
LITERARY DEVICE:
PERSONIFICATION
Learning Target
 Understand personification and its effect in
literature
Personification is a literary device in which an author
grants human qualities to inanimate objects.
 For example:
 But the darkness pressed against her and she couldn’t summon
her voice.
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What is being personified?
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What is the effect?