Question

As I carried the last of the boxes full of the legal papers outside, tripped. The lidflew up in the air, and the mocking breeze caught the papers one by one in slow motion, holding each one up in front of me before whisking it away into the street like confetti. Which sentence describes the effect of the figurative language in this passage ?

Answer 1

Answer: The second sentence, "The lid flew up in the air, and the mocking breeze caught the papers one by one in slow motion, holding each one up in front of me before whisking it away into the street like confetti"

Explanation: This sentence uses personification, as shown when the text explained that the breeze "mock[ed] and [held] each paper up." This is figurative language because a breeze was being given human characteristics and actions, which makes it personification.