Read the following passage from Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman and answer the question:
Mr. Vandemar, on the other hand, simply walked. It was too consistent, too steady and inexorable a walk to be described as a stroll: Death walks like Mr. Vandemar.
Which literary device represents Death?
a. allusion
b. hyperbole
c. tone
d. personification
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Answer: D - one of the clues that alerts the reader of personification is that sometimes the thing personified will be capitalized (like Death here). This is not always the case, but when you see something like Death or Time capitalized, then think personification.
Answer: D - one of the clues that alerts the reader of personification is that sometimes the thing personified will be capitalized (like Death here). This is not always the case, but when you see something like Death or Time capitalized, then think personification.
Thanks to Ms. Parsons for this question! I was trying to come up with some clever thing to say about Death and her class, but nothing really seemed to work (they were all either cheesy, morbid, or both), so... :(
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