Then Mr. Grabowski, a substitute teacher in his science class, asked him to read aloud a passage about insects. Lionel had always been one of the weakest readers in class. For a time, he got extra help figuring out letters and sounds. Though it happened years ago, Lionel remembered the moment as if it was yesterday.
Answer:
Yes it is, because personification means when something that is not a human, does something that only humans can. THe sun was hugging. Suns cant actually hug, they just used personification for a play-on-words. A sun isnt human, and it is doing something a human can. THerefor yes, it is personification
Explanation:
From what the narrator tells us.