Message in a bottle Reading Comprehension Questions

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Michael’s hurried journey through the forest to Watch Hill, where he throws the bottle into the sea. The gibbons howled their accusations at me all the way, the entire forest cackling and screeching its condemnation. Technique used?

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personification

Answer explanation

The technique being used in the underlined phrase is personification, where the forest is given human-like qualities of cackling and screeching, and the gibbons are given the human-like ability to accuse.