The answer is: They are subway or train tracks.
In the excerpt from "Anthem," by Ayn Rand, the narrator travels through an abandoned underground tunnel. She describes how they go below ground into a large tunnel and see the "long thin tracks of iron," which is not iron. They also touch the cold and smooth train or subway tracks, and crawl forward intending to find out where the tracks take to.
Hester voices her discomfort on the long walk to the scaffold. A military procession organizes the crowd and proceeds to the scaffold.
Answer:
Yes. Personification is when human traits/characteristics are given to something that is nonhuman.
A breeze isn’t literally painful, like if a breeze were to literally stab you. That’s just not possible.
But when it’s cold outside and you don’t have a jacket and all of a sudden there’s a breeze that hits you, it can be referred to as a painful breeze.
hope this helps.
The answer is most likely "The order of its main points"
