Personification is a literary device in which something inanimate or abstract is described as a
living being. Find an example of personification in the story and write a description of it in
your own words. Write a paragraph using this device to personify something that you see
commonly in your daily life (a mirror, a clock, a wall etc)
O'Henry personifies (gives an inanimate thing human characteristics) the illness, pneumonia, calling it "Mr. Pneumonia." At the time O'Henry wrote his short story pneumonia was more of a killer than it is today because medical science was undeveloped. To speak of someone as "red-fisted" suggests they are rough and brutal, possibly violent and bloody.
Imagine the kind of person who would have red fists. O'Henry invests the disease pneumonia with these qualities, contrasting them with the gentle, frail "little woman," a mere "mite"
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