Read the excerpt below from “blow, blow thou winter wind” and answer the question that follows.

freeze, freeze thou bitter sky,
that does not bite so nigh
as benefits forgot:
though thou the waters warp,
thy sting is not so sharp
which line from the passage above is an example of personification?

"freeze, freeze thou bitter sky,"
"thy sting is not so sharp"
"that does not bite so nigh"
"as benefits forgot: "

"Thy sting is not so sharp".

Explanation:

Personification is a literary device used by writers especially in poems to give human attributes to their inanimate subjects. These are representative forms of abstract things in human forms, giving an active image, living entity or characteristic to something that is non- human.

The poem "Blow, Blow, Thou Winter Wind" uses this device in personification of the winter wind as something animate. This poem is from the romantic comedy "As you Like It" by William Shakespeare. The line "Thy sting is not so sharp" is one such example, for it gives the human characteristic or quality of 'biting' to the winter wind. Such type of giving humanistic qualities to things are termed as a form of personification.

when making an inference, the reader should be sure to support the inference with

evidence

a is an educated guess about what will happen.

c. prediction

when new information proves that a reader's prediction is wrong, the reader should

make a new prediction based on the new information.