<P> Personification is the attribution of a personal nature or character to inanimate objects or abstract notions, especially as a rhetorical figure . </P> <Dl> <Dd> Example: "Because I could not stop for Death, / He kindly stopped for me; / The carriage held but just ourselves / And Immortality ."--Emily Dickinson . Dickinson portrays death as a carriage driver . </Dd> </Dl> <Dd> Example: "Because I could not stop for Death, / He kindly stopped for me; / The carriage held but just ourselves / And Immortality ."--Emily Dickinson . Dickinson portrays death as a carriage driver . </Dd> <P> An oxymoron is a figure of speech in which a pair of opposite or contradictory terms is used together for emphasis . </P>

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