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Which phase in this excerpt from act IV, scene III, of shakespeare's Macbeth contains personification?

MALCOLM:
I speak not as in absolute fear of you. I think our country sinks beneath the yoke; It weeps, it bleeds; and each new day a gash Is added to her wounds. I think, withal There would be hands uplifted in my right; And here, from gracious England, have I offer Of goodly thousands: but, for all this, When I shall tread upon tyrant’s head, Or wear it on my sword, yet my poor country Shall have more vices than it had before; More suffer, and more sundry ways than ever, by him that shall succeed.

A) “I speak”
B) “I think”
C) “It weeps, it bleeds”
D) “have I offer”
E) “I shall tread”
F) “wear it on my sword”

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Answer:

C) "It weeps, it bleeds"

Step-by-step explanation:

This is personification because a country does not literally weep or bleed, Malcom is giving his country human traits so one is able to better empathize with it; this is personification!

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