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In this excerpt from act III of Shakespeare’s Macbeth, which rhetorical device is used in the underlined words?

MACBETH:
It will have blood; they say, blood will have blood:
Stones have been known to move, and trees to speak;
Augurs, and understood relations, have
By magot-pies, and choughs, and rooks, brought forth
The secret'st man of blood.—What is the night?
(act III, scene IV)

Biblical allusion

Apostrophe

Personification

Simile

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I am pretty sure its personification
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It's personification i'v tried all the rest  
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