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Which excerpt from Romeo and Juliet is an example of personification?

A. "Why, then, O brawling love!"
B. "Still-waking sleep, that is not what it is!"
C. "Where shall we dine? O me! What fray was here?"
D. "This love feel I, that feel no love in this."

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A. Why, then, O brawling love!
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The answer is A: "Why, then, O brawling love!".

Personification is the representation of something nonhuman or an abstract quality in the guise of a human characteristic.

In the answer above, Shakespeare is making the abstract quality of love become quarrelsome, thus meaning that love is tumultuous and rowdy just like a human combatant would be in the wake of a fight.


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