Question

Read the selection and choose the best answer to each question.

Song Of March
by Patricia L. Cisco


With winter’s footprints in the past,
and snows begin to melt at last,

with longer days and shorter nights,
the wayward winds of March take flight,

5 four winds she holds within her grip,
then hurls them from her fingertip,

her wooly, fleecy clouds of white,
she sets in skies of blue delight,

her wild bouts of gusty breeze,
10 roars through valleys, hills and trees,

that high pitch whistling song she sings,
awakens earth and flowering things,

she tears a hole in heaven’s sky,
so sun can shine and rain can cry,

15 she gently calms as spring draws near,
as blooming daffodils appear,

she welcomes April showers in,
then gathers up her dwindling winds,
now her long journey home begins,

20 knowing she’ll be back this way,
upon a cold late winter’s day,

when nights grow short,
and days grow long,

Listen for her whistling song!



What is the most likely reason the poet uses personification throughout the poem?


Group of answer choices

To use the actions of a person to describe March’s effect on the weather

To show how March’s changing of the seasons may affect each person

To produce a personal reaction of sadness for March’s farewell

To compare March’s behavior to that of an impatient person

Answer 1

To use the actions of a person to describe March’s effect on the weather.