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Which sentence from the passage contains personification?

A.
Ives had to tell him, “Please don’t try to make things nice! All the wrong notes are right. Just copy as I have it—I want it that way.”
B.
He remembered his childhood and made it the loving subject of his compositions, but he gave those memories a strange sound.
C.
Charles later tried placing some musicians offstage during a performance and others onstage.
D.
Later Charles would say that too much of the music written “lets the ears lie back in an easy chair.”

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The answer is definitely D
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User Vadim Macagon
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It’s either B or D. The ear can’t lie back. But also memories can’t make strange sounds. You can eliminate A and C.
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User Alex Hill
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