Is painful breeze a personification?

Yes. Personification is when human traits/characteristics are given to something that is nonhuman.

A breeze isn’t literally painful, like if a breeze were to literally stab you. That’s just not possible.

But when it’s cold outside and you don’t have a jacket and all of a sudden there’s a breeze that hits you, it can be referred to as a painful breeze.

hope this helps.

i think that the quotes in paragraph 11 contribute to the development of ideas because it provides a good reasoning of the central idea of the text.