<span>D) by providing testimonials of people affected by the Great Pacific Garbage Patch
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The weather is very stormy and might foreshadow Simon's death.
Personification is a figure of speech in which non-human entities take on human qualities.
So, here is the sentence from A Rose for Emily which has personification:
<span><em>"...only Miss Emily's house was left, lifting its stubborn and coquettish decay above the cotton wagons and the gasoline pumps-an eyesore among eyesores."
</em></span><em />It is used to say that it was very different from all other houses in the neighborhood, and refused to change to fit its needs.