CYO Summative Exam Practice

This line uses personification—the night is given a human action. By saying the night wraps the town in a blanket, the author attributes the ability to wrap and envelop to night itself, something a person would do. The image makes the night feel active and almost protective, even as it conveys a cold, quiet mood. The phrase “soft, cold blanket” reinforces the feeling of being surrounded by night, turning a natural setting into a lived, sensory scene. It’s not using like or as, so it isn’t a simile, and it isn’t exaggerating beyond believable effect, so it isn’t hyperbole. The action of night performing a familiar, human task is what makes this figure of speech clearly a personification.