Meku's Writing Page
How we can know that the author is using 'personification' is by giving non-human beings human attributes that they don't have in real life. In this story, "The Flax" the author describes that the flax is feeling pain and emotions. In the story the flax says that "People say that I look exceedingly well, " "and that I am so fine and long that I shall make a beautiful piece of linen. How fortunate I am! It makes me so happy to know that something can be made of me. How the sunshine cheers me, and how sweet and refreshing[4] is the rain! My happiness overpowers me; no one in the world can feel happier than I.". The flax says that happiness overpowers it and that no one in the world can feel happier.
