Friday, February 26, 2010

Personification

Bleeding Love ~ Leona Lewis

The main example of personification in this song is "bleeding love." Humans bleed, but love doesn't, so love is being personified here.

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Listen To Your Heart ~ D.H.T.
(Originally by Roxette)

This song has two main examples of personification:
  • The first is "listen to your heart." While it is possible to listen to your heart beating, your heart cannot tell you what to do, as this song is saying. People can tell you what to do, so this is personifying your heart.
  • The second is "And there are voices that want to be heard." Wanting something is a human characteristic, and voices are not humans.

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Stop and Stare ~ One Republic

This song also uses personification in two places:

  • "This town is colder now, I think it's sick of us." This is personification because a town cannot get sick of something; that is an emotion, and towns do not have emotions.
  • "And every glance is killing me." Glances cannot literally kill people, so they are being personified here.

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