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What type of figurative language is used in the quote?

"Throughout it all, I cradled the heartbeat beneath me and prayed the pulse wouldn't beat so hard that it tired and stopped."

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personification is correct because a pulse on your hand wouldn't get tired and stopworking so that is your answer
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Personification because it's giving the heart human characteristics
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