No Personification is giving Attributes or Human Characteristics to a Non-Human Object.
A good example would be:
The wind whistled air in between the trees through the night.
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The Personification would be giving a verb to Wind.
This question is about the article "On Thin Ice" by Susan Mcgrath
Answer:
She meant that polar bears are admirable.
Explanation:
The author of the article refers to polar bears as magnificent, grandiose and very admirable animals in the midst of the landscape where they fit. With that, we can understand that she describes polar bears in this way because they are beautiful and have impressive and admirable body structures, mainly because of the environment in which they live.
There are millions of things
The subordinate clause here is A, "as the layers of ash slowly compressed". Subordinate means that it cannot exist on its own, it has to be a part of the main, independent clause.