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Ede4ka [16]
3 years ago
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Read the passage, then answer the question. “A cool breeze came up behind us, sending shivers along the spines of the mesquite t

rees.” (THE BEAN TREES, A Novel by Barbara Kingsolver. Copyright © 1988 by Barbara Kingsolver.All Rights Reserved. Reprinted by permission of HarperCollins Publishers.) What literary device is the author using? A. simile B. personification C. irony D. consonance
English
1 answer:
aev [14]3 years ago
6 0

Answer: B personification

Explanation: Personification is the attribution of a personal nature or human characteristics to something nonhuman, or the representation of an abstract quality in human form.

credit: Oxford dictionary.

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