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".
I know he beats up Johnny I am trying to remember the page number..... I just know that’s its somewhere between chapters 3 and 4, if that helps.
The article provided all the information needed in the first sentence so that people would have the knowledge necessary to understand the story being told in the article.
Answer:
Since I don't know the context your putting the word in I'll give you all of the meanings
1: the state or fact of being completely destroyed or obliterated.
2: the act of annihilating something or the state of being annihilated
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A. Character development wouldn’t matter because It’s poetry.