What is personification, in other words

Explanation:

"the attribution of a personal nature or human characteristics to something nonhuman, or the representation of an abstract quality in human form. " So its something where you say what you mean and you mean what you say. " Don't hold your tongue or lose your head while in this land .Don't pull somebody's leg or lend someone a hand.  And if your heart is on your sleeve put it back in . And try hard not to get under somebody's skin.

Like the pea was calling you to eat me.

the answer is irony!

the reason that neiterkob's daughter most likely tell the beginnings of the maasai is : to explain the readers the origin of maasai culture

with this explanation, the reader will grasp a better concept about it and not lost in the middle of reading.

                                            (hope this )