Which line in this excerpt from richard connell's “the most dangerous game” uses personification? "the old charts call it `ship-trap island,"' whitney replied. “a suggestive name, isn't it? sailors have a curious dread of the place. i don't know why. some superstition—-" "can't see it," remarked rainsford, trying to peer through the dank tropical night that was palpable as it pressed its thick warm blackness in upon the yacht. "you've good eyes," said whitney, with a laugh, "andi've seen you pick off a moose moving in the brown fall bush at four hundred yards, but even you can't see four miles or so through a moonless caribbean night." "nor four yards," admitted rainsford. "ugh! it's like moist black velvet."

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The following line from the excerpt shows personification:

"Can't see it," remarked Rainsford, trying to peer through the dank tropical night that was palpable as it pressed its thick warm blackness in upon the yacht.

It is personifying the night.

it's like watching a fable, it's not really about the animals but rather it has a meaning that is understood by us and that is implicit, not explicitly said. implicit ideas are common and are used in almost all works of art, from writing to painting to sculpting.

now, of course, the quality and the seasonability of these winter dreams varied, but the stuff of them remained.   they persuaded dexter several years later to pass up a business course at the state university—his father, prospering now, would have paid his way—for the precarious advantage of attending an older and more famous university in the east, where he was bothered by his scanty funds. but do not get the impression, because his winter dreams happened to be concerned at first with musings on the rich, that there was anything merely snobbish in the boy. he wanted not association with glittering things and glittering people—he wanted the glittering things themselves. often he reached out for the best without knowing why he wanted it—and sometimes he ran up against the mysterious denials and prohibitions in which life indulges.

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