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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.
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Examples of this are describing a storm cloud as "angry" or drawing flowers with faces. This penchant for anthropomorphism is likely because children have acquired vast amounts of socialization, but not as much experience with specific non-human entities, so thus they have less developed alternative schemas for their environment. [77]
A trickster may trick others simply for amusement or for survival in a dangerous world. The trickster could be a personification of the chaos that the world needs to function. An archetypical example is the simple peasant successfully put to the test by a King who wishes a suitable suitor for his daughter. In this fairy tale, no brave and ...
Late antique philosophical books that made heavy use of personification and were especially influential in the Middle Ages included the Psychomachia of Prudentius (early 5th century), with an elaborate plot centered around battles between the virtues and vices, [30] and The Consolation of Philosophy (c. 524) by Boethius, which takes the form of ...
Personification–Attribution of a personal nature or human characteristics to something non-human, or the representation of an abstract quality in human form. Example: The days crept by slowly, sorrowfully. Pun–a joke exploiting the different possible meanings of a word or the fact that there are words which sound alike but have different ...
Personification in sign language involves using the storyteller's body part to represent an object in the story. Doing so allows the object to "come alive" in the story. A very common example of personification in sign language stories is using the storyteller's head to represent round objects such as different types of balls.
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