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Which of the following is an example of personification in "A Race and a Frolic"?"All was as silent as death""Weeping boughs""My competitor pawing the dirt into my face like hail stones of a dark night""Clatter, clatter, clatter"

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Which of the following is an example of personification in "A Race and a Frolic"?"All was as silent as death""Weeping boughs""My competitor pawing the dirt into my face like hail stones of a dark night""Clatter, clatter, clatter"

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The example of personification in "A Race and a Frolic" is "My competitor pawing the dirt into my face like hail stones of a dark night". This is personification because it attributes human-like action (pawing) to a non-human entity (the competitor, presumably an animal).

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