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                 Putting that Literary Touch on Your Writing Writing can be enhanced by a turn of phrase—a sentence or expression that is artful. Here are three basic ways you can put a literary touch in your writing. PERSONIFICATION Personification is a form of figurative language. It gives an inanimate object a human trait. Here are a few examples. "Then the wind increased, joined by large pelts of rain, the mid-morning having made up its mind to be rainy." "I sometimes think my car hates me." "I’m convinced the eyes in the painting were following me." Obviously, wind cannot make up its mind, a car cannot hate you, and the eyes in a painting, though it might seem like they are following you, are not. We are simply ascribing human attributes to inanimate objects. OBJECTIFICATION This is the reverse of personification. You objectify when you give a human the characteristics of an inanimate object. Here are some possible ways to do it: "A pair of tiny