Personification
The ship has human-like characteristics. The sentence is talking as if the ship has the brains to decide it can sigh and hesitate.
You can remember by seeing that the word "person" is in "personification".
Because the reader can pick out details to think about how the author made this hard to think about and just use other context clues like Contrast and Contridiction
For little children
They might find it scary
Answer:
can you make this question more clear?
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