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Read this sentence: Leaving home for the last time, the porch lights winked at me as if to say goodbye. What figure of speech is used in the sentence? A Hyperbole B Personification C Alliteration D Metaphor
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Leaving home for the last time, the porch lights winked at me as if to say goodbye.


What figure of speech is used in the sentence?
A Hyperbole
B Personification
C Alliteration
D Metaphor

User Jared Cobb
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B. Personification because they gave the porch light human like capabilities
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The answer would be B) Personification because it's giving a nonhuman object human characteristics. 
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