Read the excerpt below from act 2.2 of The Tragedy of Julius Caesar and answer the question that follows. CALPURNIA:graves have yawned and yielded up their dead Which form of figurative language is used in the example above?

The graves are described as yawning, an action a living person might do, and yielding up their dead, as though they can act intentionally. Giving human qualities or actions to something nonhuman is personification, so the correct choice is personification.

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