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Read paragraph 23.
(23) 'Of course some one might cut them down.' The boy lowered his voice; it seemed shameful to mention the perpetration
of such a deed aloud. It would be terrible to hear them groan when the axe struck them. The young ones mightn't mind so
much; but it would be bad for the grandfather trees who've been here from the beginning. Hannah says one would still hear
them wailing on stormy nights."
The author uses personification, such as hear them groan, in this paragraph to explain how
upset and anguished the boy would be to lose his trees.
damaging and terrible it would be to cut down the trees.
the impact would be far worse for the older trees.
Hannah would have reacted to the trees being harmed.
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