In Ray Bradbury's poem, "There Will Come Soft Rains" personification is used to connect the reader with non-human or inanimate objects that are being described in the piece. ... In this poem, Bradbury offers the inanimate object (the house) human characteristics in order to make object more significant in the story. ... Near the end of the captivating poem, Bradbury continues to use personification as the house starts to "die": "The house shuddered, oak bone on bone, its bared skeleton cringing from the heat, its wire, its nerves revealed as if a surgeon had torn the skin o...

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A typical question that the reader encounters as he/she reads the Old English poem, Beowulf, an epic with unknown authorship. ... However, their ogre bodies have strikingly human characteristics as well. ... Grendel and his mother are considered as monsters with human-like qualities and characteristics; hence, humans can also be considered as having monstrous qualities. ... Why does their monster characteristics take precedence over their human sides? ... Grendel embodies the emotion of envy throughout the poem. ...

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