Blackdog Media
Classic Reader: The Celestial Railroad by Nathaniel Hawthorne
Read the short story "The Celestial Railroad" by Nathaniel Hawthorne. In it, Hawthorne parodies the seventeenth-century book "The Pilgrim's Progress", which portrays a Christian's spiritual journey through life.
Rutgers University
Rutgers University: Glossary of Literary and Rhetorical Terms: Personification
Brief definition of personification with links to related terms, allegory and apostrophe.