A Tale of Two Cities

Personification: is a figure of speech in which an author attributes human qualities to an object, an animal or an idea. Give an example of Dickens’ use of personification to describe the guillotine. (Book 3 Chapters 1-7)

Personification: is a figure of speech in which an author attributes human qualities to an object, an animal or an idea. Give an example of Dickens’ use of personification to describe the guillotine.

(Book 3 Chapters 1-7)

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"In the name of that sharp female newly-born, and called La Guillotine, why did you come to France?"

"Little Sainte Guillotine"-- for the great sharp female was by that time popularly canonised

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