The following quote from “Pecos Bill” is an example of what type of figurative language?

“Bill glanced up at the cyclone and the quiet smile on his face faded into a frown. He saw that the cyclone was angry. Very, very angry indeed.”

A. personification

B. hyperbole

C. understatement

D. onomatopoeia

Question

The following quote from “Pecos Bill” is an example of what type of figurative language? 

“Bill glanced up at the cyclone and the quiet smile on his face faded into a frown. He saw that the cyclone was angry. Very, very angry indeed.” 




 
A. personification 
 
 
B. hyperbole 
 
 
C. understatement 
 
 
D. onomatopoeia

tacotime · Answer

a personification means giving objects human characteristics (like emotions)

anonymous · Answer

I put A to .

anonymous · Answer

What is the meaning of the bold print word in the following quote?
“That spiritual and physical oneness we all share with this common homeland explains the depth of the pain we all carried in our hearts as we saw our country tear itself apart in terrible conflict, and as we saw it spurned, outlawed and isolated by the peoples of the world, precisely because it has become the universal base of the pernicious ideology and practice of racism and racial oppression.”
 




 
A. constructive 
 
 
B. hopeful 
 
 
C. destructive 
 
 
D. angry

anonymous · Answer

Which of the following is an example of a universal theme?



 
A. the power of love 
 
 
B. the fear of falling 
 
 
C. the absolute importance of success 
 
 
D. the appeal of television mysteries