Read the excerpt below from act 2.2 of the tragedy of julius caesar and answer the question that follows. calpurnia: graves have yawned and yielded up their dead which form of figurative language is used in the example above? metaphor soliloquy personification apostrophe

The correct answer is personification. 

Personification refers to a type of figurative language in which an author ascribes human qualities to non-human things. In this instance, Shakespeare describes graves as having the human ability to yawn and "yielded up their dead". Personification is literary technique that makes text more vivid and descriptive for the reader.

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