<span>I think that Bilbo felt for Gollum. The dwarves and the goblins hated certain beings. Still they all belonged to a group or collective Middle Earth "ethnicity". Gollum was alone:he had nobody to even collictively hate him. Bilbo was tired of the feuds and prejudice. He wanted to purge his own prejudice, he let Gollum live. </span>
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Personification is giving human like characteristics or actions to a non-human things.
Excerpt 1 just talks about how scary and awful the Red Death is, but it doesn't really make it seem human.
Excerpt 2 describes the Red Death like a really scary looking masked person looking thing, kind of like a scythe. The Red Death is a non-human thing though, but Poe is making it seem human. This is personification.
Excerpt 3 talks about a face, vesture, brow, etc. These are all things that humans usually have. This is a personification.
Excerpt 4 is just describing a scary place, but it doesn't really talk about anything human, and it doesn't seem to be talking about the Red Death at all.
Therefore, the answer is Excerpt 2 and Excerpt 3.
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Answer:
The central idea of the book is, aspects of good citizens
Imperfections were flung upon the man who had appropriated his viands by the vociferous urchin.
