Read the following excerpt from Leslie Marmon Silko’s story "The Man to Send Rain Clouds."The sun was approaching the long mesa where it disappeared during the winter. What type of figurative language is included in this passage?

The passage describes the sun as “approaching” the mesa, giving it an action associated with a living thing that can move toward a destination. This is personification. It is not a simile because it does not compare things using “like” or “as.”

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