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Which poetic device is represented in the following sentence? As I lay on the beach pondering my next step, the stars above winked at me, offering encouragement. A. imagery B. onomatopoeia C. personification
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Which poetic device is represented in the following sentence?

As I lay on the beach pondering my next step, the stars above winked at me, offering encouragement.

A. imagery
B. onomatopoeia
C. personification
D. metaphor

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Answer: C. Personification
Explanation: winking is a human characteristic. When you describe a non-human object to do human like things, we call it personification.
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personification, “winked” is a human characteristic, so when applied to something non-human, it is personification.
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