Answer:
1. Hurricane Katrina is the non-human subject.
2. Words and phrases like;
becomes throat,
I become a mouth, thrashing hair, an overdone eye
my thirst
try to feed me
a crime behind my teeth
I console myself
to define my body
give the subject human qualities.
Step-by-step explanation:
Personification is the literary style of assigning human attributes to a non-human subject. This literary technique was vastly applied in the poem, 5 P.M., Tuesday August 23, 2005 by Patricia Smith. The hurricane which was formerly calm as described by the opening words, "A muted thread of gray light, hovering ocean", suddenly gathers the energy to cause mayhem.
It becomes a throat-human quality, that swallows everything around it. Many other human attributes are used to qualify the problems caused by the hurricane.