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Is got a smart mouth personification?

It's not really personification in the strict sense of the word.

Personification gives human qualities to inanimate objects or abstract concepts. For example, "The wind whispered secrets through the trees" gives the wind the ability to whisper.

"Got a smart mouth" is an idiom, meaning someone is rude or disrespectful. It's not literally giving the mouth intelligence or the ability to speak, but rather a metaphorical way of describing someone's behavior.

However, you could argue that it *impliedly* uses a kind of personification:

* It treats the mouth as an independent entity capable of acting independently, suggesting a person's words are dictated by their mouth, not their mind.

* The "smart mouth" is characterized by its sharpness and rebelliousness, which are human traits.

So, while it's not a direct example of personification, it does use metaphorical language to convey a certain meaning and could be interpreted as a kind of implied personification.

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