Personification In Pigman

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“An Analysis of The Pigman and ‘Future Tense’” You can’t deny laughter; when it comes, it plops down in your favorite chair and stays as long as it wants”-Stephen King. Everyday personification is used to compare everyday items and give them human features or life. In the stories The Pigman by Paul Zindel and “Future Tense” by Robert Lipsyte the authors use personification to develop the setting, mood and tone. Paul Zindel, author of The Pigman uses several examples of personification. One example of personification is “the door opened with a sigh”. This example shows that the person opening the door has a down mood and slowly opens the door. Another example of personification is “Right in the bright sunlight you can see the flashing

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