Question

what is the effect created by the words 'The silence surged softly backward'?

Answer 1

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What is efect created by the word silence surged softy backward

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Answer 2

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This sentence is an example of the poetic device, personification. Personification is when an object or an animal is given human characteristics and behaves like human beings.

Here, silence is given the human quality of moving backward. This creates the effect of eerily dramatic tone. This sentence means that the silence was gradually broken.