what is personification and alliteration?

Question

i'm confused-_-

Answer 1

when a animal for example is givin human cahracteristics - personification

Like rhyme, alliteration is a great help to memory: it is 'catchy', and frequently used in news headlines, corporate names, literary titles, advertising, buzzwords, and nursery rhymes.

ex: Baby Boom
Back to Basics
Balance the Books
Beavis and Butt-Head
Big Bang
Big Ben
Boom or Bust
Born to Be My Baby
Coca-Cola
Do or Die
Final Four
French Fries
Green as Grass
Hale and Hearty
Kill the King
Live the Life
Making Magic
March Madness
Mathematical Meandering
McDonald's Massacre
Mickey Mouse
Monday Morning
the More the Merrier
Nattering Nabobs of Negativism
Pay the Price
Petty Prince
Political Policy
Pontiac Pursuit
Poor but Proud
Rubber Roller
Sesame Street
Sink or Swim
Super Sonic
Sweet Sixteen
It Takes Two To Tango
Take Two
Tips, techniques and tales from the toilet
Tribulation Tech
Watchful Waiting

Answer 2

Personification...the root of this word is 'person' and the whole of this word means that you take a characteristic that is human and apply it to an animal or inanimate object.
Example: The wave slapped the shore.
hands slap, not waves...but, it draws a picture in our minds of the way the wave is making contact with the ground, in a slapping motion...it may even sound like a hand slapping something.
Example: The cat talked back to me.
Cats do not 'talk' they meow...but, this gives the idea of a cat being sassy to someone.

Alliteration is a way of writing in which you match two or more words...with the same beginning letter to catch the reader's attention within a sentence or phrase.

Example: tongue twisters are nothing but alliteration...
"She sell seashells by the seashore"
"The big black bee bit the big black bear and the big black bear bled black blood"
"Six slimy snakes slithered slowly through the slush"

Answer 3

personification is a phrase that gives a object human charicteristics...like...The thunder grumbled and growled all night..


alliteration is the use of words that sound similar or start with the same letter to create a type of rhyming in writing. They create a saying that is easy to remember. Businesses use them in advertising many times...like...Cathy's Cakes and Cookies..

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Answer 4

Personification is giving human attributes to inanimate objects or animals. EX: the wind whispered
Alliteration in using several word that start with the same sound (doesn't have to be the same letter, just the sound.) EX: Mary makes money.

Answer 5

Alliteration is starting more than one word with the same letter - for example - Beautiful Baby.

Answer 6

LITERARY DEVICES

http://www.tnellen.com/cybereng/lit_terms/

http://www.spellingpolice.com/higher/

http://www.lausd.k12.ca.us/lausd/resources/Literary.Terms.Menu.html

http://www.virtualsalt.com/litterms.htm

http://www.mistupid.com/literature/litterms.htm


A Glossary of Rhetorical Terms with Examples.

http://www.uky.edu/AS/Classics/rhetoric.html

Vocabulary: Glossary of Rhetorical and Stylistic Devices
Directions: Do the following four assignments to achieve mastery. Write your response in the space provided after each term.

http://schoolhousebooksweb.com/glossary_of_terms.htm

Rhetorical Devices,

http://www.virtualsalt.com/litterms.htm

This site contains definitions and examples of more than sixty
traditional rhetorical devices, all of which can still be useful today to improve the effectiveness, clarity, and enjoyment of your writing. Note: This book was written in 1980, with some changes since. The devices presented are not in alphabetical order. To go directly to the discussion of a particular device, click on the name below. If you know these already, go directly to the Self Test.

Sites about Rhetoric

http://www.americanrhetoric.com/articles&awards/thenortonreader.htm

Good luck for the future.

Answer 7

personification is putting a human quality to a non human thing, like cry, blow...
alliteration is the repition of the first letter of the words

Answer 8

personification means an embodiment or perfect example of something

alliteration means a poetic or literary effect achieved by using several words that begin with the same or similar consonants, as in "Whither wilt thou wander, wayfarer?"

Answer 9

aliteration is a bunch of words that start with the same letter-like a tongue twister

personification is giving something nonliving human attributes

Answer 10

here are some links that may help you...they give examples.


www.emints.org/ethemes/resources/S00000804.shtml
www.hometown.aol.com/odysseybms/LiteraryTerms.htm
www.uky.edu/AS/Classics/rhetoric.html