Read the following sentence:
The plants in the garden needed to be watered.
Which revision below uses personification?

The plants in the garden were begging for water

The plants will take a million years to grow without more water.

The plants were like sticks because they needed water.

The plants in the garden were as dry as a desert.

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Answer:

A.

Given the meaning of personification, which is to classify a nonliving object as a living object, the answer is A.

Context Clues

A. states that the plants were, "begging for water", which is a hyperbole but also personification, because plants cannot actually beg for water without speaking. Only people can speak(Understatement, parrots can, "mock" people by speaking, too).