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Grave have yawned and yielded up their dead

Which form of figurative language is used in the example above ?
Metaphor
Soliloquy
Personification
Apostrophe

User Ksice
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My guess is PERSONIFICATION because personification is used when a nonhuman object is compared with doing human things. A grave can't actually yawn! (That would actually be very creepy...) I hope this is right:)
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