Question

"So it was the hand that started it all . . . His hands had been infected, and soon it would be his arms . . . His hands were ravenous."

The quote above in reference to the hands of Guy Montag is a literary example of ................

Group of answer choices

Alliteration

Diction

Irony

Personification

Answer 1

The quote you provided is a literary example of **personification**. This is because it attributes human qualities—specifically, the ability to be "ravenous"—to Montag's hands, which cannot physically possess desires or emotions.