Question

Read the following sentence near the end of "The Outcasts of Poker Flat":

"The moon through the rifted clouds looked down upon what had
been the camp."
What figure of speech is used in this sentence?
personification
symbol
hyperbole
simile

Answer 1

Answer: Personification

Step-by-step explanation:

Personification refers to the practice of ascribing human actions and behavior to non-human things such as objects and abstractions.

Here the moon was said to have ''looked down'' on the camp. This is a human thing to do and the moon as an object does not have to capability to look down on things so saying that the moon did this is an example of personification.