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What type of figurative language is the

following sentence?
"The house shuddered, oak bone on bone
its hard skeleton cringing from the heat, its
wire, the nerves revealed as if a surgeon
had torn the skin off to let the red veins
and capillaries quiver in the scalded air."

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Answer:

This shows personification

Step-by-step explanation:

The sentence refers to the house like it it a person.

EX: “The house shuddered”, “its hard skeleton”

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