Personification Linguistic examples

Phillipp Veit's Germania (1877), a personification of Germany.

Bharat Mata, that is, the Mother India or Bharathamba (Bharat - India, Mata - Mother) is a personification of India as a mother goddess. She is usually depicted as a woman dressed in an orange/saffron saree holding a flag.

Marianne, a national emblem of France French postage stamp since 1792, personification of Liberty and Reason. She is present in many places in France and holds a place of honour in town halls and law courts.

Свобода, Равенство, Братство.

Uncle Sam is a national personification of the United States, with the first usage of the term dating from the War of 1812 and the first illustration dating from 1852. He is often depicted as a serious elderly man with white hair and a goatee, dressed in clothing that recalls the design elements of the flag of the United States—for example, a top hat with red and white stripes and white stars on a blue band, and red and white pants

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"The Motherland" statue in Volgograd (former Stalingrad).

I'm not afraid of dying, kid, you understand? Maybe a week. Maybe two.

ELLIPSIS.

After three days in the hospital, two days in jail, seven hours in the car, and six hours in the motel, Mark...

ENUMERATION.

. He is crazy as hell

SIMILE.

..., had once again situated himself in Ord's office to analyze the latest.

ELLIPSIS.

But we showed them, didn't we kid? We showed them.

REPETITION.

No bugs, wire, body mikes, salt shakers, or ketchup bottles

ENUMERATION.

. He stuck the filter between his lips like a gangster.

SIMILE.

2. They dispose of my chubby little body somewhere, just like they did Senator Boyette and, bum!, just like that, New Orleans has another unsolved murder.

REPETITION.

The sooner you get here, the sooner you'll get the body.

REPETITION.

2. He got the house, kids, trophy wife everything.

ENUMERATION.

Listen, Reggie. Wait a minute! Listen! Can You hear it? ... Just wait a minute.

REPETITION.

1. The only time their father had spend at home was to drink and sleep and abuse them.

ENUMERATION.

He felt like an eleven-year-old father

SIMILE.

Why, why, why, who, who, who. You are a

real pain in the ass, Mark.

REPETITION.

"Very good question," Bobby said like a profess Pandering a first-year law student.

HIPERBOLE.

You are the stupid one, Mark thought again.

UNDERSTATEMENT.

He had four of them in his pocket that Afternoon as he lad his brother, Ricky, age eight, down the path into the woods behind their trailer park

INVERSION.

...., then squirmed and slid backward like drugged elephant until he hit the rear window.

SIMILE.

Slowly ever so slowly, he inched his shaking finger to the door lock switch.

HIPERBOLE.

My name is Gill Teal and I'm a lawyer, and specialize in auto accidents, especially cases involving large trucks.

POLYSINDATON.

None of your damned business, okey, kid, i'm nuts, okey.

UNDERSTATEMENT.

It took years, but she slowly pieced her life back together.

METONIMY.

The after math had not been pretty, but the drunken idiot stopped beating their . mother.

UNDERSTATEMENT.

Good luck to you, Mark, and I assure you you've been a bigger pain.

HIPERBOLE.

The blade is not the smartest thug I’ve ever met.

UNDERSTATEMENT.

And Mark glanced at the bullet hole in the window, and at the millions of tiny crooked cracks running from it, then at the red face and heavy eyelids.

POLYSINDATON.

He was married and that was mandatory

Parallel constructions

Shhhhhh, you are talking too loud.

HIPERBOLE.

3. He started chasing women, and became involved with a younger nurse, who eventually became wife number two.

POLYSINDATON.

Thinks he's genius, but he's really quite stupid.

UNDERSTATEMENT.

"You're too crazy," she kept muttering, and it was not idle talk.

HIPERBOLE.

He was like a pregnant woman

Simile

She was quiet, light, fragile, tender, affectionate, loving, delicate

Enumeration

we ride, play tennis or golf, swim or gamble

Enumeration