Question

Is it better to use personification or an onomatopoeia?

The breeze tickled her nose/kissed her lips.
Or...
Whoosh, the breeze swept by...

Answer 1

Personification, it gives a piece of writing more depth. You could say something like the breeze, whipped her face with her hair. Ya'know? The reader would get the point of the wind was blowing hard.

Answer 2

Okay, thanks! :)D

Answer 3

No prob!

Answer 4

Either can be effective depending on the context and the surrounding sentences.

Answer 5

Personification is so personal, I love it. Never been a fan of onomatopoeia but all is your choice. Tickle my nose. Don't whoosh. ;)

Answer 6

Beauty is in the eye:

Hear the sledges with the bells -
Silver bells!
What a world of merriment their melody foretells!
How they tinkle, tinkle, tinkle,
In the icy air of night!
While the stars that oversprinkle
All the heavens, seem to twinkle
With a crystalline delight;
Keeping time, time, time,
In a sort of Runic rhyme,
To the tintinnabulation that so musically wells
From the bells, bells, bells, bells,
Bells, bells, bells -
From the jingling and the tinkling of the bells.
-Edgar Allen Poe; from The Bells

Answer 7

His poetry may as well stick a dagger in my lungs! I am always left breathless after a soak in Edgar Allan Poe's words. I admire him a heavy bit.

Answer 8

In middle school I had to (well choose to I guess) memorize and recite The Raven. It was a chore at first, but it really turned me on to his work. It's funny. It's been almost 30 years since I recited that poem, but I still remember every word of it.

Answer 9

In middle school, I read Tell Tale Heart and ever since, I have been everso in love with that short story and the mastermind who wrote it.