In the afternoon, the trees were bare arms and the fields were a dreary brown, but just before dusk the first flurries started.
Which of the following explains how the authors uses figurative language?

Personification is a literary device that is used when the author ascribes the quality of a human to an inanimate object. It is also used when an abstract quality is attributed to a human representation.

In the above sentence, the trees were described as having bare arms as if they were humans. This helps the reader to imagine a tree without leaves and fruits. So, the author attributed a human quality to the trees and this is personification.

In the afternoon, the trees were bare arms and the fields were a dreary brown, but just before dusk the first flurries started. Which of the following explains how the authors uses figurative language?

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In the afternoon, the trees were bare arms and the fields were a dreary brown, but just before dusk the first flurries started.
Which of the following explains how the authors uses figurative language?