Question

Which of the following best illustrates the author's use of personification?
A. She says her memories are "like a needle".
B. She says her "attention was arrested by a water faucet".
C. She says the wind "whispers" to her.
D. She says she felt the presence of ghosts in the camp.

Answer 1

Answer:

c

Explanation:

personification is giving an inanimate object human like characteristics. wind cant actually whisper

Answer 2

Answer:

C. She says the wind "whispers" to her.

Explanation:

This is the answer because:

1) Personification is a type of figurative language that means to write human characteristics to something nonhuman. For example, the trees are dancing.

2) Wind is nonhuman, the author wrote a human characteristic (whisper) to describe the wind.

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