Question

Which four lines in this excerpt from "Flight" by John Steinbeck contain personification?

The farm buildings huddled like the clinging aphids on the mountain skirts, crouched low to the ground as though the wind might blow them into the sea. . . .

Five-fingered ferns hung over the water and dropped spray from their fingertips. . . .

The high mountain wind coasted sighing through the passand whistled on the edges of the big blocks of broken granite. . . .

A scar of green grass cut across the flat. And behind the flat another mountain rose, desolate with dead rocks and starving little black bushes. . . .

Gradually the sharp snaggled edge of the ridge stood out above them, rotten granite tortured and eaten by the winds of time. Pepe had dropped his reins on the horn, leaving direction to the horse. The brush grabbed at his legs in the dark until one knee of his jeans was ripped.

Answer 1

The four lines in the excerpt that contain personification are identified and explained in detail.

The personification of inanimate objects is a literary device where human characteristics are given to non-human entities. In the excerpt from 'Flight' by John Steinbeck, the following lines contain personification:

The farm buildings huddled like the clinging aphids on the mountain skirts, crouched low to the ground as though the wind might blow them into the sea.

Five-fingered ferns hung over the water and dropped spray from their fingertips.

The high mountain wind coasted sighing through the pass and whistled on the edges of the big blocks of broken granite.

A scar of green grass cut across the flat. And behind the flat another mountain rose, desolate with dead rocks and starving little black bushes.