Section: Reading

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The description of the windmill as “rheumatic and stiff in the joints from age” is an example of what literary device?

A: synecdoche
B: alliteration
C: personification
D: simile
E: assonance

Explanation

Personification is the technique in which something non-human is described as if it were a human being.

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