As I was reading "Four Angry Horsemen" by Alexander Valdez (pg. 160, TBTW 2012), I was struck by his use of personification to breathe life into intangible and inanimate ideas. It got me to thinking that while personification may be an easy thing to identify in a text, it is much harder the other way around - that is, to create the personification. And so, a lesson was born.
