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my avatar is a black guy's fear
Yes my reason saying that is because it's a free country and you should be able to do what you wanna do it's not harming no one it's your actions no one should care only you.
Answer: The following lines from the passage given contain personification:
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1) "<span>The farm buildings huddled like the clinging aphids on the mountain skirts, crouched low to the ground as though the wind might blow them into the sea.."
This attributes "person-like" characteristics. Specifically, "farm buildings" (inanimate objects) "huddled" (as a past tense verb) and "crouched [as a verb] low to the ground.
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2) "....</span><span>Five-fingered ferns hung over the water and dropped spray from their fingertips. . . . "
This passage refers to ferns (plants) having "fingers" [note: "five-fingered ferns") and "fingertips".
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3) "...</span><span>The high mountain wind coasted sighing through the pass and whistled on the edges of the big blocks of broken granite. . . .
This passage describe the wind "sighing" and "whistling"; which are person-like traits.
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4) "...</span><span>Gradually the sharp snaggled edge of the ridge stood out above them, rotten granite tortured and eaten by the winds of time...."
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Describes the "granite" (type of rock") as "rotten" and being "tortured and eaten" (person-like attributes of human cruelty; and the "wind" having "tortured and eaten/ over time".
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