Read this sentence.

he has fished in manhattan’s wallet and dug out coins, but has never listened to manhattan’s breathing, never awakened to its morning, never dropped off to sleep in its night.

how does the personification in the words “manhattan’s breathing” affect the passage?

it explains how noisy new york can be at night.

it symbolizes the animalistic nature of a predatory city.

it describes the crowded conditions that exist in the city.

it creates the feeling that new york is a living being.

It creates the feeling that New York is a living being.

Personification is giving nonhuman things human-like traits. In the sentence New York is described as having pockets and breathing. It's also described as having a morning and a night. These are all things a living being has. There are no noises besides breathing described, and this is not noisy. The conditions are also not described as being crowded. The tone is not predatory or negative so this also eliminates option B.

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d. murder of a son and cooking the son for a feast

procne murdered her son and served him to tereus, her husband and her son's father. she did this out of revenge. tereus raped her sister, philomela, and cut her tongue out to keep her from talking. philomela managed to communicate it to procne and procne sought revenge.

tantalus murdered his son and fed him to the gods because he was angry with the gods. the gods punished him by putting him in a pool of water that evaporates when he tries to drink and having fruit hang just out of his reach.