What figure of speech is used in the line from walt whitman's poem i hear america singing

Personification is used in Walt Whitman's poem "I hear America singing".

Personification -

Personification is a figure of speech, or indirect way of conveying an idea, that represents a non-human thing as if it were human so as to give human qualities or traits to it, often by way of a metaphor.

answer: inference

explanation:

an inference can be understood as a conclusion to which a person is able to get based on reasoning. it is the same as a deduction, a guess, an assumption.   in the sentence presented, the conjunction "but" gives the readers an idea of contrast, and, therefore, allows them to induce that despite the opponent's characteristics, andrea had something different that made her win.