The quote is an example of personification. Explain why . " ..While the mists, like ghosts, were stealthily withdrawing in every direction into the woods, as at the breaking up of some nocturnal conventicle."
Answer: Personification is making something nonhuman have a human characteristic, personality, or demeanor. When the quote says, "...While the mists, like ghosts..." It gives the mist a character.
