Question

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Which line from "Mending Wall" uses personification to add humor to the poem?
1 "Something there is that doesn't love a wall"
2 "We have to use a spell to make them balance: ‘Stay where you are until our backs are turned!'"
3 "Before I built a wall I'd ask to know / What I was walling in or walling out"
4 "The work of hunters is another thing"

Answer 1

Answer:

2. "We have to use a spell to make them balance: 'stay where you are until our backs are turned!"

Explanation:

I got it right on the quiz for the lesson.  "When we personify something, we give human traits to something that's not human.  Personification is a kind of figurative language that adds interest to a poem."