Question

Which line includes an example of personification?

a.
"the cliffs fissure and collapse"
b.
". . . the trees unloose / their soft arms . . ."
c.
". . . time after time / climbing the hill . . ."
d.
"It was always the other way round."


Please select the best answer from the choices provided

Answer 1

the answer is b because trees don't have arms

Answer 2

The line which includes an example of personification is the following one:

b. ". . . the trees unloose / their soft arms . . ."

Step-by-step explanation:

Personification is a figure of speech in which non-human things acquire human traits so a certain idea can be conveyed.

Trees have no arms, so that is an example of personification. Plus, an adjective was used to describe those "arms": soft, which means those trees were described as having truly human characteristics, since there is nothing soft about a tree (except its leaves). The author probably meant those particular trees were kind in the sense of providing a feeling of serenity, in the same way a kind and gentle person would be able to do.