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Question 4 Unsaved The water beckoned invitingly to the hot swimmers. This example uses ________________. Question 4 options: alliteration hyperbole idiom personification

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The correct answer is D, personification.

Personification involves giving human qualities to inanimate objects. In this sentence, the water "beckoned." To beckon means to gesture to someone to come closer -- a distinctly human action.

Therefore, this sentence uses personification to give water a human quality.

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