The following is an example of personification: The trees ached ...

[joblessjake]

The following is an example of personification: The trees ached and cried out for love. The term
  personification refers to
 
  a. when a writer gives a person characteristics of nonliving objects.
  b. when a writer gives an inanimate object, animal, or other nonhuman, human traits.
  c. an ongoing dialogue between nature and humans.
  d. dialogue between two unrelated characters in a play or other dramatic work.

Question 2

I love the third stanza of the poem when he writes, life is the death of life. What is a stanza?
 
  a. a chapter
  b. the rhyming scheme of a poem
  c. an instance of plot in poetry
  d. a group of lines forming a unit in a poem

[choc0chan]

Answer to Question 1

b. when a writer gives an inanimate object, animal, or other nonhuman, human traits.

Answer to Question 2

d. a group of lines forming a unit in a poem

[joblessjake]

Thanks for the timely response, appreciate it

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