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Joey, the third-grade writer of this poem, uses personification when he says the smoke can “run up the chimney” and the “ashes dodge.”
Fire
Crackling against the wood
I hear the smoke
Run up the chimney.
Ashes dodge out of the fire
Hitting against my skin.
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