Question

Read these lines from "Fog" by Carl Sandburg.

It [the fog] sits looking

over harbor and city

The underlined section of the poem is an example of

Answer 1

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Answer 2

Alrighty! So the answer choices refers to the literary devices simile, metaphor, and personification. Let's take a look at what these devices are!

A simile is when two things are compared together using only the words "like" or "as". A simile is not a simile without those words!

Example: My love is like a rose.

In this example, we are comparing "my love" to a "rose" using the word "like".

Next, a metaphor is similar to a simile. It is referencing one object to describe another! A common example of this is "America is like a melting pot," which means that America is a mixture of cultures and things, similar to that of a melting pot.

Lastly is the personification. Personification is when you make a non-human subject have human like characteristics or qualities. An example would be a dog talking, or the leaves dancing in the wind. Dogs do not talk and leaves do not dance, but this gives us a nice image as to how those subjects are behaving!

Now, there are different types of personification your question is referring to, and I have never heard of action or thought personification, but I assume that is asking if the personification is action related or thought related???