拟人化手法作为一种艺术手法在我国源远流长,许多寓言、童话都是用拟人手法写的。所谓拟人化,就是把人类的特性、特点加于外界事物上,使之具有人格化。因为这种方法是将物拟作人,故称拟人化手法。拟人化手法作为新闻写作的一种表现方法,和修辞学中讲的比拟、譬喻是两个范畴。修辞学中讲的比拟、比喻是修饰语词的方法。我们这里讲的拟人化写法是贯穿新闻写作全过程的表现手法,不仅仅是个语言加工问题。虽然记者、通讯员在运用拟人化手法写新闻时,离不开比拟、比喻等修辞手段,但在一篇新闻作品中出现几处或十几处比拟和比喻, Personification as a means of art in our country goes back to ancient times, many fables, fairy tales are written by anthropomorphic techniques. The so-called anthropomorphism, is the human characteristics, characteristics added to the external things, so that it is personalized. Because this method is to make things as people, it is called anthropomorphic techniques. Anthropomorphic techniques as a performance of the way news writing, rhetoric and speaking, analogy is the two categories. Compared to rhetoric, metaphor is the way to modify words. The anthropomorphic wording we talk about here is not only a language processing issue, but also an expression of the whole process of news writing. Although journalists and correspondents can not do without rhetorical devices such as analogy and metaphor in the process of using anthropomorphic techniques to write news, there are several or a dozen or so metaphors in a news piece.