What literary technique is "animation upon lifeless matter" from FRANKENSTEIN????? (1 Viewer)

[sghguos]

What literary technique would "animiation up lifeless matter" from Frankenstein be?

 

[Eg155]

Re: What literary technique is "animation upon lifeless matter" from FRANKENSTEIN????

it's a pun on the word lifeless.

 

[Uniqueness]

Re: What literary technique is "animation upon lifeless matter" from FRANKENSTEIN????

I don't understand the pun :/ I know lifeless as lack of life.. but what else can it be?

 

[kaz1]

Re: What literary technique is "animation upon lifeless matter" from FRANKENSTEIN????

imagery

 

[Riproot]

Personification.

Lol

 

[Uniqueness]

Re: What literary technique is "animation upon lifeless matter" from FRANKENSTEIN????

It's always symbolism

 

[Demise]

Re: What literary technique is "animation upon lifeless matter" from FRANKENSTEIN????

It's always symbolism

Or emotive language.