The figure of speech used in the sentence above is PERSONIFICATION.
Personification is a figure of speech which attributes personal nature or human characteristics to an inanimate objects. In the sentence given above, the author wrote that 'the wind whispers and the stream giggles. These are actions that only human beings can carry out, but the author is given the attributes to wind and stream, which are inanimate objects.
Van Lew's modest looks and actions helped her spying success.<span>
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Answer:
The answer would be unable to be endured
Explanation:
You cannot bear to hear her talk about it anymore and so you quickly change the topic. While tending to be tedious sounds like a good answer it is not because even if something is tedious you will still do it.
