Which of the following lines from the stories in this Unit best illustrates personification?
OD
This church seems always to have made it a favorite haunt of troubled spirits. It stands on a knoll, surrounded by locust-trees and lofty elms, from among which
its decent, whitewashed walls shine modestly forth, like Christian purity
beaming through the shades of retirement.
Streaming files of wild ducks began to make their appearance high in the air; the bark of the squirrel might be heard from the groves of beech and hickory-nuts,
and the pensive whistle of the quail at intervals from the neighboring stubble field.
As the red light arose and fell, a numerous congregation alternately shone forth, then disappeared in shadow, and again grew, as it were, out of the darkness,
peopling the heart of the solitary woods at once.
There was an iciness, a sinking, a sickening of the heart-an unredeemed dreariness of thought.
All of the choices are correct.