What does the personification in this text suggest?
There was never a sound beside the wood but one,
And that was my long scythe whispering to the ground.
—Robert Frost, "Mowing"
The scythe gently touched the ground. The scythe made a soft swishing sound.
Figures of speech are words or phrases that use language in a nonliteral or unusual way. They can make writing more expressive.
Personification is giving human characteristics to nonhuman things.
The trees danced in the wind.
The text uses personification, giving human characteristics to nonhuman things.
Whispering suggests that the scythe made a soft swishing sound. A whisper is a quiet way of speaking, and a scythe cutting through grass would make a gentle swishing sound similar to a whisper.