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CALPURNIA: graves have yawned and yielded up their dead Which form of figurative language is used in the example above?

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personification? because graves cant be dead?
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Answer: personification.

Explanation: personification is a figure of speech that consists in giving human characteristics to non human objects (or animals) in order to create an image. In the given excerpt we can see an example of personification because Calpurnia says that graves (non human objects) have the ability of yawning and yielding up their dead (which are human characteristics that graves can't really do).

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