by Lisa Hall Wilson
I’m often askedhowto go deeper in fiction. My jam is Deep Point of View, and I get that not everyone loves deep POV. That’s okay. However, if you’re looking for a really quick way to make your setting or characters come alive on the page, personification is one of those tools that every writer can use more effectively.
Personification:giving human-like qualities to non-human things.
The last piece of pie called his name.
The story jumped off the page.
Opportunity knocks.
All of these examples give a human-like quality or emotion to something that isn’t human. Pie doesn’t talk. Stories can’t jump anymore than opportunity can knock on something. These are obviously not literal meanings but figurative.
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