As the old man tries to comfort himself, the narrator states it is in vain "because death had stalked with his black shadow … and enveloped the victim." this quotation contains an example of question 13 options: simile personification parallel structure alliteration

personification        

Explanation:

          The term 'personification' means to attribute any human characteristics or nature to some non human objects. It represents an abstract quality. It is a metaphor in which an abstraction or a thing is being represented as a human being.

           In the context, death is being compared with a person and the narrator says that 'death' had stalked the victim which is a metaphor. As 'death' is not living person so it cannot stalk anybody. Thus this is an example of a personification.

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the median of the data is 4.

step-by-step explanation:

the median means the middle number of a given number.

to decide which one is the median, arrange in ascending or descending order. but sometimes, you may find two(2) number in the middle, but it's easy, just add them together and divide by 2.

so,   determine the median of the data. 2, 3, 3, 4, 5, 7, 9

it is already arranged, count 3 times forward and 3 backward and the one left is your answer.

2,3,3,4,5,7,9

our answer is 4.

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