Question 1 • EN091 Freshman English A
Personification gives human actions or qualities to something nonhuman. In “it plays with the clouds” and “it mocks the skies,” the sea is described as playing and mocking, so those are examples of personification. “The open sea,” “without a mark,” and “without a bound” describe the sea but do not give it human actions.
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