Read the excerpt from Leslie Marmon Silko’s story "The Man to Send Rain Clouds." The sun was approaching the long mesa where it disappeared during the winter. What type of figurative language is included in this passage?

The passage uses personification by describing the sun as “approaching” the mesa, as if it were a person moving toward a destination. It is not a simile because it does not compare the sun to something using “like” or “as,” and it does not make an exaggerated claim.

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