Read the passage from "Pilgrim at Tinker Creek" As each green wave rose from the "churning" water, it illuminated within itself
the six - or eight- foot- long bodies of twisting sharks. Which best determines the connotative meaning of the underlined word? NOTE there is a picture and the underlined word is churning. A Dangerous B beautiful C moving D Dark
Previous to the word, it's mentioned that the waves were moving, using the word "rose" which already implies a movement going upwards and being dangerous. Afterward, it mentions the word "churning" to describe the movement of the waves, therefore, the word refers to "dangerous".
Personification is when you are giving a nonhuman thing a human characteristic. In this sentence, the jet-black night is the nonhuman thing and it is doing a human thing (staring through the window-pane).