Which figure of speech is used in this excerpt?
Before the barn door strutted the gallant wingspan, that pattern of a husband, a warrior and a fine gentleman, clapping his burnished wings and crowing in the pride and gladness of his heart,—sometimes tearing up the earth with his feet, and then generously calling his ever-hungry family of wives and children to enjoy the rich morsel which he had discovered.
(from The Legend of Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irving)

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Question

Which figure of speech is used in this excerpt? 
Before the barn door strutted the gallant wingspan, that pattern of a husband, a warrior and a fine gentleman, clapping his burnished wings and crowing in the pride and gladness of his heart,—sometimes tearing up the earth with his feet, and then generously calling his ever-hungry family of wives and children to enjoy the rich morsel which he had discovered.
(from The Legend of Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irving)

metaphor 

personification

repetition

simile

anonymous · Answer

This excerpt is describing a rooster, but because he is described with human-like qualities (his responses, his family, his characterization), this is an example of personification