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2. If You Give a Mouse a Cookie - Wikipedia

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   From If You Give a Mouse a Cookie. The entire story is told in second person.A boy named Matthew gives a cookie to a mouse. The mouse asks for a glass of milk. He then requests a straw (to drink the milk), a napkin and then a mirror (to avoid a milk mustache), nail scissors (to trim his hair in the mirror), and a broom (to sweep up his hair trimmings).

3. Personification - Wikipedia

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   Personification in the Bible is mostly limited to passing phrases which can probably be regarded as literary flourishes, [18] with the important and much-discussed exception of Wisdom in the Book of Proverbs, 1–9, where a female personification is treated at some length, and makes speeches. [19]

4. Phthonus - Wikipedia

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   Armento vase painting 375-350 BC. In Greek mythology, Phthonus (/ ˈ θ oʊ n ə s /; Ancient Greek: Φθόνος Phthónos), or sometimes Zelus, was the personification of jealousy and envy, [1] most prominently in matters of romance.

5. Stylistic device - Wikipedia

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   Example: "From up here on the fourteenth floor, my brother Charley looks like an insect scurrying among other insects." (from "Sweet Potato Pie," Eugenia Collier) (from "Sweet Potato Pie," Eugenia Collier)

6. Pathetic fallacy - Wikipedia

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   [1] The phrase pathetic fallacy is a literary term for the attribution of human emotion and conduct to things found in nature that are not human. It is a kind of personification that occurs in poetic descriptions, when, for example, clouds seem sullen, when leaves dance, or when rocks seem indifferent.

7. Lockie Leonard - Wikipedia

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   Lockie Leonard is a 12-year-old who moves to Angelus, a fictional, small coastal town in the southwest region of Western Australia.Lockie has to deal with starting high school in a new town, his father is a police officer who everybody calls Sarge, his mother Joy, is overly understanding, and his brother Phillip still wets the bed. [1]

8. The Beach (novel) - Wikipedia

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   The Beach is a 1996 novel by English author Alex Garland. Set in Thailand , it is the story of a young backpacker's search for a legendary, idyllic and isolated beach untouched by tourism, and his time there in its small, international community of backpackers.

9. Oceanus - Wikipedia

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   In Greek mythology, Oceanus (/ oʊ ˈ s iː ə n ə s / oh-SEE-ə-nəs; [1] Ancient Greek: Ὠκεανός [2] [ɔːke.anós], also Ὠγενός [ɔːɡenós], Ὤγενος [ɔ̌ːɡenos], or Ὠγήν [ɔːɡɛ̌ːn]) [3] was a Titan son of Uranus and Gaia, the husband of his sister the Titan Tethys, and the father of the river gods and the Oceanids, as well as being the great river which ...