This paper explains that in "Gulliver's Travels", which consists of four main tales about Gulliver's experiences at sea,
Jonathan Swift used many figures of speech such as
personification, hyperboles, similes and
alliteration. The author defines personification as a figure of speech in which inanimate objects are endowed with human qualities or are represented as possessing human form; whereas, similes are a figure of speech in which two essentially unlike things are compared using "like" or "as". The paper relates that alliteration is the repetition of the same sounds at the beginning of words such as "particles", "percolate", "pillows", "pin-cushions", "petrifying" and "preserve", which all begin with "p", and are found in the same sentence in this book.