"The old charts call it `Ship-Trap Island,"' Whitney replied. “A suggestive name, isn't it? (Sailors have a curious dread of the place.) I don't know why. Some superstition—

Respuesta :

If you are looking for personification in this excerpt, then your answer would be the old charts call it...
Personification is when non-human entities get human qualities, in this case, charts call something. Charts cannot really call something, but humans do, and through the process of personification, they can do as well, at least in literature.