A mixture that cannot be easily distinguished between the different parts. Distillation is one of the only ways to remove the parts from each other. For example, in a fruit salad you can easily pick things out, but in jello you cannot take the sugar out.
The use of personification is present in this sentence= My shoes crunched on the gravel and I hear crickets laughing, and humans laugh, crickets don’t and there is the usage of personification, hope this helps