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What does this personification mean? The family was awakened as the first rays of the morning peered into their bedroom windows
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What does this personification mean?

The family was awakened as the first rays of the morning peered into their bedroom windows

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It’s when you put human traits onto something that is inhuman. EX: “that paint is as blue as her eyes”
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it means that the family woke up due to the sunlight coming through the bedroom windows. the use of "peered" in this sentence is the personification, as the sun can't really "peer."

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