Answer:
Hyperbole
Explanation:
As personification is when an inanimate object is given characteristics of something living, like "the sun smiled at me" The sentence does not do that, so it is hyperbole.
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Answer:
d) the calm before the storm
Explanation:
he explains that it was as if the world stopped rotating (the calm) and then a leaf turns black (as if it may have been struck by lightning), the "air claps air" (like thunder)
I think the novel being discussed is The Custom-House by Hawthorne.
In the preface of the book, Hawthorne mentioned his ancestors. He has mixed feelings about them. He feels connected to them because of their blood connection but he dislikes their stern morality and rigidity as Puritans.
They are also relevant in the novel because Hawthorne drew inspiration from them by making their intolerance and lack of humanity the subject of the novel.
He sets up a dead tree so it would fall and hit zaroff .
