Question

Read the following passage and answer the question. ...but we none of us said anything, for we had woven about us a net of silence in whose meshes were precariously held our fears and our misgivings What is being personified in this passage?

a silence
b meshes
c fears
d misgivings

Answer 1

In this passage, silence is being personified. The correct answer is a).

Personification is a literary device in which the attribution of a personal nature or human characteristics is given to something non-human, or to the representation of an abstract quality in human form.

In this case, silence is being described as a net where these two characters hold their fears and misgivings.

Answer 2

a. Silence is being personified here. It is described as a net containing "fears and misgivings." in other words, the writer is saying they have decided to keep their fears to themselves.