3. Personification is a special kind of comparison that gives non-human things human qualities. The first stanza (paragraph)uses a personification. What non-human thing is given
what human quality? Explain what it means. (2 points).

that would depend on what it said but here's an example the waves were crying.. crying is a human thing and waves aren't human so we know that this is personification :)

Here is an example of personification from the poem:

Five thousand tongues applauded when he wiped them on his shirt;

In this line, the tongues are personified. They can’t actually applaud.

Explanation:

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as for symbolic actions, the narrator's tearing down the wallpaper in an attempt to find the "woman" in the wallpaper represents her struggle to retain or regain her sanity.   the wallpaper has been part of her confinement and by her tearing it down, she is freeing herself from that confinement.