Literary Device

Definition Have you noticed the powers and costumes of most of the popular superheroes, like Spider-Man, Wolverine, Black Panther, Ant-man, Catwoman etc., exhibit different animal qualities? For example, Spider-man can crawl like a spider, and Black Panther embodies a panther’s power and grace. If you are not familiar with any of them, you must have…

In the previous post on personification, we learned that attributing human characteristics to inanimate and abstract things is called personification. But what about attributing human personality to animals in fictional work? You might have seen animals acting like humans in popular movies like Zootopia, Sing, etc., or books like Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, The Jungle…