what is the literary term for " A hundred mysterious years were whispering among the leaves"
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what is the literary term for " A hundred mysterious years were whispering among the leaves"
Although you might be looking for something more specific, I can say that personification is a fitting term for this example. "Years," which are inanimate, non-personal things, do not "whisper" like humans. To say they do, then, is to personify them as such.
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