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The literary device used by the author in this passage is Personification.
Personification is a type of metaphor that consists of giving human traits to something that is not human to describe a picture in other's people heads.
In the passage, 1) the wind <em>whispers softly</em> and 2) the stream <em>giggles</em>.
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