Stylistic device Similar to 'personification' but direct. The speaker addresses someone absent or dead, or addresses an inanimate or abstract object as if it were human. This is when the name of a character has a symbolic meaning. For example, in Dickens' "Great Expectations", Miss Havisham has a sham, or lives a life full of pretense. In Hawthorne's "The Scarlet Letter", Rev. Dimmesdale metaphorically fades away (dims) as the novel progresses, while Chillingworth has a cold (chilled) heart. A symbol may be an object, a person, a situation, an action, a word, or an idea that has literal meaning in the story
Kim Dickens Cards". In film, she co-starred in "Footloose" (2011) and "At Any Price" (2012). In 2014, she had a major supporting role as Detective Rhonda Boney in the psychological thriller film "Gone Girl", directed by David Fincher, and in 2016, co-starred as the lead character's mother in Tim Burton's film "Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children". In 2015, Dickens began playing Madison Clark in "The Walking Dead" companion series, "Fear the Walking Dead". The series premiered on AMC on August 23, 2015. Kim Dickens Kimberly Jan Dickens (born June 18, 1965) is an American actress. Her film debut was a supporting