The answer is <em>D. The author's background and expertise.</em>
Answer: Personification is the attribution of a personal nature or human characteristics to something nonhuman, or the representation of an abstract quality in human form.
Examples:
- The leaves whistles quietly in the morning breeze.
- The volcano growls loudly with pride.
or
- The stairs groaned as we walked on them.
- The moon played hide and seek with the clouds.
I would also chose 'The loin who is a great hunter'
Your answer is:
No.
The Iilliputians are very "large" and powerful in this story! They even imprisonate big, strong Gulliver! Swift presents a sort of oxymoron in this story as the Iilliputians are physically pint-sized but mentally gigantic!
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