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What literary device is used in the sentence below, and what is its meaning? "The night was calm and gentle, wrapping me peacefully in its silent arms."
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What literary device is used in the sentence below, and what is its meaning?

"The night was calm and gentle, wrapping me peacefully in its silent arms."

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Personification

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The sentence attributes a human characteristics, "arms", to "the night" which is nonhuman.

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Personification

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the night doesn't have arms but in the sentence giving the night arms is making it able to have human like characteristics.

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