The busy pedestrians mostly ignored the old melancholy house a. simile b. metaphor c. personification d. irony e. hyperbole

C) Personification.

Explanation: personification is a figure of speech that consists in giving human characteristics to non human objects (or animals), in order to give an example of something, or to create an image. In the given sentence we can see a clear example of personification (corresponding to option C), because it describes the house (non human object) as being melancholic (human characteristic).

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