Personification and Onomatopoeia

A figurative language that gives human characteristics to inanimate objects and animals.

• Hyperbole

• Simile

• Alliteration

• Personification

It is a sound device that resembles the sound of the thing it describes.

• Alliteration

• Assonance

• Onomatopoeia

• Simile

The ding-dong of the doorbell is not loud enough.

• Hyperbole

• Personification

• Alliteration

• Onomatopoeia

“Boom!” is an example of what?

• oxymoron

• irony

• onomatopoeia

• personification

The tired old car coughed and wheezed and crawled down the street.

• Onomatopoeia

• Simile

• Personification

• Irony

The car complained as the key was roughly turned in its ignition.

• alliteration

• hyperbole

• personification

• simile

The stars winked in the night sky.

• Personification

• Assonance

• Alliteration

• Onomatopoeia

The chiming bells scare when I heard it last night.

• Onomatopoeia

• Alliteration

• Assonance

• Personification

The smell of baking muffins welcomed us inside.

• Metaphor

• Personification

• Alliteration

• Assonance

That piece of chocolate cake is calling my name.

• Alliteration

• Assonance

• Simile

• Personification