What does the personification in this text suggest?
It was the early afternoon of a sunshiny day with little winds playing hide-and-seek in it.
—Katherine Mansfield, "How Pearl Button Was Kidnapped"
There was very little wind. There were occasional gusts of wind.
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.
Little winds playing hide-and-seek suggests that there were occasional gusts of wind. It brings to mind children alternately disappearing and reappearing.