"The evening breeze had sprung up...the cordage had begun to sing a little softly to itself and idle sails to rattle to and fro." Is this a simile, metaphor, personification, onomatopoeia or hyperbole? PLEASE HELP!!?

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Answer 1 · 2016-07-08T21:00:43

Personification.

Personification is the use of human verbs when describing objects that do not have the same certain abilities.

We see in the sentence a few examples:

"The evening breeze had sprung up...the cordage had begun to sing a little softly to itself and idle sails rattle to and fro."

A gust of wind can't 'spring'. This is how we know this is personification. Same goes for 'sing'. These human actions are called personification.