Ways of personifying. (personification in literature) Style | March 22, 1997| | COPYRIGHT 1997 Northern Illinois University. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information) Copyright

Over the centuries, rhetoricians and critics have offered numerous definitions of personification, some inclusive, others restrictive. Since inclusive definitions tend to blur distinctions and restrictive ones to push aside problematic instances in their pursuit of clarity, I shall use this essay to construct a typology of practices that have either been bundled roughly together or forced into the cold out of a failure to acknowledge their kinship with mainstream personification. This typology will be structured by the ways in which the device mediates between the divine and ...

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