"Death wrapped itself around me till I was stifled. It stuck to me. I felt that I could touch it. The idea of dying, of no longer being, began to fascinate me. Not to exist any longer. Not to feel the horrible pains in my foot. Not to feel anything, neither weariness, nor cold, nor anything. To break the ranks, to let oneself slide to the edge of the road…" What is the effect of the personification in this excerpt? Group of answer choices Death is personified to show how it attached itself to Elie, overtaking his thoughts. His foot is personified to show how it was no longer a part of his body but behaved with its own mind. Pain is personified to show how much Elie was attacked by it. The cold is personified to show how it numbed Elie into feeling nothing.
