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1. What is personification? Give examples.

Personification is a figure of speech, representation of inanimate objects or abstract ideas as living beings. Personification is giving human qualities to animals or objects. Personification is giving human traits (qualities, feelings, action, or characteristics) to non-living objects (things, colors, qualities, or ...

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