When You're a Pirate Dog
and Other Pirate Poems
by Eric Ode
Pelican Publishing
Illustrated by Jim Harris
Tall Tales of the Wild West
(And a Few Short Ones)
by Eric Ode
Meadowbrook Press
Illustrated by Ben Crane
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Anthropomorphism
Anthropomorphism is the attributing of human form or chacteristics to a being or thing that is not human. Although anthropomorphism and personification share a good deal in common, we'll look at them independently. For our purposes (and some will disagree), personification is primarily a figure of speech (ie, the wind howled; the snowflakes fell lazily) whereas anthropomorphism is not so much a figure of speech as it is the creating of a character with human traits out of something that is non-human. Here are two examples of anthropomorphism from poems found in Tall Tales of the Wild West (And a Few Short Ones).
Poems from Tall Tales of the Wild West (And a Few Short Ones)
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Examples of Anthropomorphism
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Horseflies
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The fly smiles and speaks
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The Armadillo
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The armadillo speaks
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