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Read the sentence from the declaration of independence why is this sentence an example of the use of personification?

They too have been deaf to the voice of justice and of consanguinity.
A. The word "voice" gives "justice" and "consanguinity" a human quality.
B. The words 'justice" and "consanguinity" are being compared.
C. The words mean something other than what they are saying.
D. The colonists' British brethren suffer from a physical deficiency.

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A, The word "voice" gives "justice" and "consanguinity" a human quality. And that is what personification is, giving inanimate objects human qualities.
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A. The word "voice
" gives "justice" and "consanguinity" a human quality.
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