MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
Which of the following TWO are examples
of personification?
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cherry limbs shoving
"Instructions on Not Giving Up" by Ada Limón
More than the fuchsia funnels breaking out
of the crabapple tree, more than the neighbor's
Which of the
almost obscene display of cherry limbs shoving
following provides
their cotton candy colored blossoms to the slate
sky of Spring rains, it's the greening of the trees
an example of
that really gets to me. When all the shock of
personification?
white
and taffy, the world's baubles and trinkets, leave
the pavement strewn with the confetti of
aftermath
the leaves come. Patient, plodding, a green skin
growing over whatever winter did to us, a retum
to the strange idea of continuous living despite
the mess of us, the hurt, the empty. Fine then,
I'll take it, the tree seems to say, a new stick leat
unfurling like a fist to open palm, I'll take it all
a new slick leaf
greening of the trees
patient, plodding
confetti of aftermath