: Re: Metaphor or Personification Recently, on a school test, I was given a poem comprehension. One of the questions was : What is the figure of speech in "...the trees start whispering among

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This is personification.

Personification is the attribution of a personal nature or human characteristics to something non-human, or the representation of an abstract quality in human form.

A tree cannot whisper, in fact trees cannot talk to each other unlike human beings. But here, they are personified as if they can.

Had it been a metaphor, it would have been an unstated comparison between two things.

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