Personification and hyperbole are literary terms used to give human attributes to inanimate objects or exaggerate to emphasize a point. Both are used in everyday conversation, speeches, and literature, particularly in poetry.
Both personification and hyperbole are literary terms and, in practice, neither are meant to be taken seriously. This may be why they are often confused. When a person, such as a writer, uses personification, he is giving human attributes to an idea or an inanimate object. When he uses hyperbole, he is creating an exaggeration to emphasize or emphasize a point. Both personification and hyperbole are used in everyday conversation, although they are also often present in professional and creative instances of speech and writing.
A person uses personification when he gives human qualities to an inanimate object or abstract idea. In this way, the persona made the object or idea look like a person. These qualities could be thoughts or physical actions. For example, if a writer describes the wind as kicking the leaves, he has used an instance of personification. He personified the wind, telling readers that he performed the human action of kicking, and in doing so he also explained the gusty and powerful state of the wind.
On the other hand, when a writer uses hyperbole, they are exaggerating. Making human-like attributions to inanimate objects or abstract ideas is certainly exaggerated, if not outright lying, but a hyperbole is more than an exaggerated statement intended to make a point or emphasize an idea. For example, if a woman tells her son that she’s already asked him a million times to put away her toys when she’s done playing with them, she’s using hyperbole. She’s exaggerating, because it’s unlikely she’s asked him a million times. However, the woman uses the exaggerated number to point out that she has asked him many times to put away her toys.
Both personification and hyperbole are used in a variety of ways, and typically whenever a person wants to better describe a scene or make a point. People use them in everyday conversations, politicians use them in speeches, and advertisers use them in advertisements. Often writers use examples of personification and hyperbole in various pieces of literature. While both hyperbole and personification can be used in novels, short stories, and other similar types of literature, they are perhaps most commonly used in poetry. This may be because many poems are themselves abstract, and these terms allow poets to employ evocative qualities rather than simply telling the reader the meaning.
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