(Reference to Moses on Mt. Sinai). He received the lion's
share of the profits. (Reference to the fable of the lion's share).
Suffer not yourselves to be betrayed by a kiss. (Reference to the
betrayal of Christ by Judas).
4. Personification. Sometimes the metaphor consists in speaking of
inanimate things or animals as if they were human. This is called the
figure of _personification_. It raises the lower to the dignity of the
higher, and so gives it more importance.
_Examples_: Earth felt the wound. Next Anger rushed, his eyes on fire.
The moping Owl doth to the Moon complain. True Hope is swift and flies
with swallow's wings. Vice is a monster of so frightful mien, as to be
hated needs but to be seen. Speckled Vanity will sicken soon and die.
(Note in the next to the last example that the purely impersonal is
raised, not to human level, but to that of the brute creation.
Still the figure is called personification).
5. Apostrophe. When inanimate things, or the absent, whether
living or dead, are addressed as if they were living and
present, we have a figure of speech called _apostrophe_.
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