Identify examples of personification in ""building with its face blown off"" by billy collins. what is the effect of that figurative language?

"Personification is the representation of a non-human thing with the characters of a human like emotions, appearances, etc."

The poem "Building With Its Face Blown Off" by Billy Collins have many examples of personification in it.

Explanation:

The first example of personification can be found in its title only where a building is presented by the poet having a face blown off.

The effect of the use of personification in the poem is that it is making the poetry come alive, as if this blown up building is telling the pain and describing itself after being blown off.

Other examples of personification in the poem are:

"as if the room had answered the explosion

wearing only its striped pyjamas."

"And the bathroom looks almost embarrassed

by its uncovered ochre walls,

the twisted mess of its plumbing,"

"the sink sinking to its knees,

1. read the following excerpt from franklin d. roosevelt's "fireside chat 19":

on the other side of the picture, we must learn also to know that guerilla warfare against the germans in, let us say serbia or norway, us; that a successful russian offensive against the germans us; and that british successes on land or sea in any part of the world strengthen our hands.

remember always that germany and italy, regardless of any formal declaration of war, consider themselves at war with the united states at this moment just as much as they consider themselves at war with britain or russia. and germany puts all the other republics of the americas into the same category of enemies. the people of our sister republics of this hemisphere can be honored by that fact.  

the true goal we seek is far above and beyond the ugly field of battle. when we resort to force, as now we must, we are determined that this force shall be directed toward ultimate good as well as against immediate evil. we americans are not destroyers — we are builders.

analyze the effectiveness of this excerpt. how does it function within the speech as a whole? how does the structure of the excerpt to convey the speech's purpose and key points? support your argument with evidence from the speech. (10 points)