Question

How does the use of personification in the fourth stanza affect the poem? And that very night, as we lay packed tight

in our robes beneath the snow,

And the dogs were fed, and the stars o’erhead

were dancing heel and toe,

He turned to me, and “Cap,” says he,

“I’ll cash in this trip, I guess;

And if I do, I’m asking that you

won’t refuse my last request.”



How does the use of personification in the fourth stanza affect the poem?

It makes the speaker seem like an imaginative person.

It implies that the events of the poem take place in fantasy rather than reality.

It creates the idea that the North is so cold that even the stars are shivering.

It suggests that the stars are controlling the fates of Sam McGee and the speaker.

Answer 1

It makes the speaker seem like an imaginative person.

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Answer 2

Answer: B) It implies that the events of the poem take place in fantasy rather than reality.

Explanation: personification is a figure of speech that consists in giving human characteristics to non human objects (or animals), in order to illustrate an example of something or to create a mental image. In the given lines we can see an example of personification in the phrase "and the stars o’erhead were dancing heel and toe" because it says that the stars (non human objects) were dancing (human characteristic), this personification implies that the events of the poem take place in fantasy rather than reality.