I didn’t know if the city would welcome him.

Question

P) Personification
S) Simile
H) Hyperbole
M) Metaphor
L) Literal
I) Idiom

Answer 1

The sentence "I didn’t know if the city would welcome him" can be classified as P) Personification. This is because it attributes the human action of "welcoming" to the city, which is an inanimate entity.