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Imagery and Figurative Language in Tennyson’s “Morte d’Arthur”

Question 6 • ***CPS Online English Language Arts 12 Fall – 1-2027

Which line contains personification?

Answer
A
“Place me in the barge”
B
“the making of the world”
C
“A cry that shiver’d to the tingling stars”

Explanation

Personification gives a human quality or action to something nonhuman. In “A cry that shiver’d to the tingling stars,” the stars are described as “tingling,” suggesting they can feel a sensation. The other lines do not give a human quality to a nonhuman thing.

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