Which of the following best illustrates the author's use of personification?
A. She says her memories are "like a needle".
B. She says her "attention was arrested by a water faucet".
C. She says the wind "whispers" to her.
D. She says she felt the presence of ghosts in the camp.
1) Personification is a type of figurative language that means to write human characteristics to something nonhuman. For example, the trees are dancing.
2) Wind is nonhuman, the author wrote a human characteristic (whisper) to describe the wind.
