n How does the author use personification in this scene? He uses adjectives to describe the animals, He makes the fight between two animals seem like a boxing match He includes humans in the background, He describes Nagaina lowering her hood. Rikl-tikki was bounding all round Nagaina, keeping just out of reach of her stroke, his little eyes like hot coals. Nagaina gathered herself together, and flung out at him. Rikki-tikki jumped up and backward. Again and again and again she struck, and each time her head came with a whack on the matting of the verandah, and she gathered herself together like a watch spring. Then Rilki-tikki danced in a circle to get behind her, and Nagaina spun round to keep her head to his head, so that the rustle of her tail on the matting sounded like dry leaves blown by the wind. He had forgotten the egg. It still lay on the verandah, and Nagaina came nearer "Riki Tiki Tavi. Rudyard Kipling