Read the excerpt below and answer the question. where thoughts serenely sweet express how pure, how dear their dwelling place. (“she walks in beauty”, lines 11-12) these lines represent an example of synecdoche personification simile alliteration

Personification

Personification is a metaphor and a literary device that takes place when a thing, idea, abstract qualities, nature, emotions or event is given human characteristics. This is used in the excerpt when referring to the "thoughts". The narrator gives the process of thinking itself the characteristic of expressing certain ideas, which is an attribute of humans.