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Read the following line of poetry. Then, answer the question that follows.

How dreary the winds shriek and whine …

Which type of figurative language is used in this excerpt?

Allusion
Idiom
Personification
Simile

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Answer:

Personification.

Step-by-step explanation:

Giving the wind human features such as the ability to make sound is personification.

"shriek" and "wine" are personifications.

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