What is personification in literature?

Attributing human traits to animals

Giving human traits to inanimate objects or abstract ideas

A technique to describe a character's feelings

Comparing two unrelated things directly

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B. Giving human traits to inanimate objects or abstract ideas

Personification gives human traits to non-human entities. Options A, C, and D define other literary devices.

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