Identify Personification

Identify the type of figurative language.

At the recital, Olivia's fingers danced over the keyboard.

• simile

• metaphor

• personification

• alliteration

• hyperbole

giving human characteristics to a nonhuman subject

• simile

• alliteration

• metaphor

• personification

The ball came screaming across home plate.

• simile

• metaphor

• hyperbole

• personification

Identify the figurative language.

"The sun begged me to get out of bed"

• personification

• metaphor

• simile

• hyperbole

The stars winked at me after I made a wish.​ (a)  

• personification

• simile

• metaphor

"The ocean crashed angrily during the storm"

is an example of which type of figurative language?

(a)  

• personification

• alliteration

• a simile

• a metaphor

Giving inanimate objects human characteristics...​ (a)  

• Hyperbole

• Personification

• Simile

• Idiom

• Metaphor

• Symbol

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7.9D

representing a thing or idea as a person (figurative language) ​ ​ ​ (a)  

• personification

• onomatopoeia

• simile

• allusion

• alliteration

• idiom

• hyperbole

• claim

• sequence

• metaphor

When an author gives human characteristics to non-human objects, this is an example of: (a)  

• personification

• alliteration

• hyperbole

• metaphor

Giving human qualities to animals or objects is (a)  

• simile

• alliteration

• hyperbole

• personification