Personification and imperative

Blow winds, and cracks your cheeks! Rage blow is personification because the wind don't have cheeks to blow. It is also personification because he says the word 'your' implies that the wind is a person although the wind is not a person.
Imperatives are orders. They do not have pronouns. e.i  Sit down Thomas.
Personification is when you give an inanimate objects human characteristics. e.i. The trees danced.
Shakespeare presents King Lear as mad by using personification and imperatives. I can tell because while King Lear is gazing at the top of the cliff he orders the wind/storm to seriously injure him or even kill him. 


Rumble thy bellyful! Spit, 
fire Spout, Rain. This is 
personification because King Lear is implying that the thunder rumble sounds like a hungry persons belly 
rumbling. Then again the 
thunder cant spit fire.

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