Question

Which of these excerpts from the poems you read is an example of personification?

A. Visible, invisible, / a fluctuating charm / an amber-tinctured amethyst / inhabits it (Moore, "A Jelly-Fish")
B. Here and there / his brown skin hung in strips / like ancient wallpaper (Bishop, "The Fish")
C. April / Comes like an idiot, babbling and strewing flowers (Millay, "Spring") D. so much depends / upon / a red wheel / barrow (Williams, "The Red Wheelbarrow")

Answer 1

C

Step-by-step explanation:

Answer 2

Answer: C) April / Comes like an idiot, babbling and strewing flowers (Millay, "Spring").

Step-by-step explanation: personification is a figure of speech that consists in giving human characteristics to non human objects (or animals). From the given options, the excerpt that contains an example of personification is the corresponding to option C, because it says that April (that is a non human concept) comes like and idiot, babbling and strewing flowers (which are human characteristics).