Question

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which best explains what personification is?
a. creating a persona through which to speak in a poem
b. suggesting that animals are superior to people
c. giving human attributes to nonhuman things
d. using characters from ancient myths in a poem

Explanation:

Personification is a literary device where non-human entities (objects, animals, ideas, etc.) are given human-like traits, behaviors, or qualities, which matches option C. The other options describe different literary or conceptual ideas: A refers to a poetic persona, B is a thematic claim about animals, and D refers to mythic allusion.

Answer:

C. Giving human attributes to nonhuman things