THE PERSONIFICATION IN JOHN UPDIKE’S POETRY
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Kozlova A.G.
Keywords: John Updike, poetry, stylistics, figures of speech, stylistic devices, tropes, personification.
The article focuses on various types of personifications employed by John Updike in his poetry, such as transcendental, submersive, conceptual, cognitive, extended, nominative and periphrastic. Their distinctive features, characteristics, and expressive, subjective, intensifying, and dramatic functions are singled out and illustrated by vivid examples in different contexts. Numerous cases of personifications combined with other expressive means, stylistic devices, figures of speech, and tropes, such as metaphors, metonymies, epithets, similes, oxymorons, periphrases, antitheses, grotesques, allegories, are classified and analyzed.
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