Answer: I believe the answer is personification.
Explanation: Philllis Wheatley's description of mother earth having offspring and nations gazing at scenes are not exaggerations, but rather putting human nature attributes to these objects.
The first devices used for measuring the position of the Sun were shadow clocks, which later developed into the sundial. ... 3500 BC, are among the earliest shadow clocks. The oldest of all known sundials dates back to c. 1500 BC (during the 19th Dynasty), and was discovered in the Valley of the Kings in 2013.
