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 sun is described as “approaching” the mesa, which gives it an action associated with a person or other living thing. That makes the passage an example of personification. It is not a simile or metaphor because it does not compare the sun to something else.

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