Ad hominem is an attack against the arguer instead of the argument itself in order to cast doubts about arguer's argument.
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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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Sorry that I dont know which one but it is A or C
Explanation:
D.
I believe it is D because he is looking at the map and is confused on where to go, he finds it impossible to tell which way he should go.
