Personification. The author is treating the river like a person. When an object/animal/thing is talked about like a human being, then it is personification
Scott was a heap of flowing, heartbroken tears for a long time after his beloved puppy passed away.
Note: Be careful with your tense. At the beginning, you said 'was sad' (past tense), and at the end, you put 'puppy dies' (present tense).
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Answer:
the earths rotation on its axis in a 24 hour time
Explanation:
The newspaper clerk said that he's worried that the newspaper's reputation will go down because of the nonsense Kovaloff has given. This is the reason that the newspaper clerk has given to Major Kovaloff for not being able to run his ad. This part of a story is taken from "The Nose" story written by Nikolai Gogol.
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