What does the personification in this text suggest?
Ten thousand daffodils saw I at a glance,
Tossing their heads in sprightly dance.
—William Wordsworth, "I wandered lonely as a Cloud"
The daffodils were moving in the wind. The daffodils were bent over.
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.
Tossing their heads in sprightly dance suggests that the daffodils were moving in the wind. The poet describes flowers blowing around on their stems as dancers tossing their heads.