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Function of Personification: Poetry Practice Test
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In the following lines from an original poem about a couple arguing in a car during winter, what is the function of the personification in the bolded phrase?
The heater coughs out lukewarm breath.
Streetlights smear across the windshield
like fingerprints we can’t confess.
Your silence sits between the seats.
At the red light, the wipers argue with the sleet,
back and forth, back and forth—
a metronome for what we won’t say,
until the glass gives up and blurs.
In the following lines from an original poem about a couple arguing in a car during winter, what is the function of the personification in the bolded phrase?
The heater coughs out lukewarm breath. Streetlights smear across the windshield like fingerprints we can’t confess. Your silence sits between the seats. At the red light, the wipers argue with the sleet, back and forth, back and forth— a metronome for what we won’t say, until the glass gives up and blurs.