Personification
The ship has human-like characteristics. The sentence is talking as if the ship has the brains to decide it can sigh and hesitate.
You can remember by seeing that the word "person" is in "personification".
The correct answer is letter D. <span>metaphors. </span>Both Common Sense and Patrick Henry's speech illustrate how figurative and emotional language contribute to the author's purpose as well as to metaphors. Metaphors is a figure of speech where you compare a certain thing to a thing without using the words 'like' and 'as'.
Time
I'm sorry! Am I too late?