Incident in a Rose Garden Group

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driver
driver
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High School - 9th Grade

What is the personification in this story?

Tell me if im right or wrong here, but when it says, "And there stood Death in the Garden. Dressed like a Spanish waiter."

Is the personifying Death to a Waiter?

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Posted by driver on Tuesday February 27, 2007 at 10:54 PM and tagged with incident in a rose garden, poem.

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  1. gbeatty Teacher
    College - Freshman

    eNotes Editor

    Yes, that would be personification exactly. It starts as soon as Justice has the gardener refer to death as "he," and says that he "stood there." Any time a writer gives an inanimate object (or, in this case, abstract idea) human identity, that's personification.

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    Posted by gbeatty on Wednesday February 28, 2007 at 7:43 AM

  2. tinaeiche
    tinaeiche Student
    High School - 12th Grade

    i wanted gto know when he had sad that? i have the poem here rite infron of me saying "sir, i encountered death just now amoung our roses. thin as a sythe he stoodthyere. i knew him by his pictures, he had on his black coat, black gloves and a broad black hat" thank you for reading this comment.

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    Posted by tinaeiche on Monday April 16, 2007 at 12:43 PM