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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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not positive but I believe its "the dank tropical night that was palpable as it pressed its thick warm blackness in upon the yacht."
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Answer: B) "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.

Explanation: Personification is a figure of speech that consists in giving human characteristics to non-human objects, it can also be describing an abstract concept or idea, with human characteristics. From the given excerpt from "The Most Dangerous Game" by Richard Connell, the one that uses personification is option B, in the phrase "the dank tropical night that was palpable as it pressed its thick warm blackness in upon the yacht" there is a personification of "the night" because it says that it "pressed its darkness upon the yacht."

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