Finding Personification in the Folktale
Which two things are personified in the folktale?
trees
misery
children
"I am Death, and I have come to take you with me."
Thinking fast, Aunty Misery said, "All right, but before I
go, I would like to pluck some pears from my beloved tree
to remember how much pleasure it brought to me in this
life. But I am a very old woman and cannot climb to the
tallest branches where the best fruit is. Will you be so
kind as to do it for me?"
With a heavy sigh like wind through a tomb, Senor Death
climbed the pear tree. Immediately he became stuck to it
as if with glue. And no matter how much he cursed and
threatened, Aunty Misery would not allow the tree to
release Death
-"Aunty Misery
Judith Ortiz Cofer
pears
death
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