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the curtain was waving to everyone every time the wind blew through the open window , what figure of speech is this

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Personification

Step-by-step explanation:

Personification is giving human or human like characterisitics to something nonhuman.

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Personification.

The author is saying the curtain was "waving," but curtains don't have hands to wave. This personifies the curtain because it is attributing human characteristics to something nonhuman.

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