English quiz #1

The application of human characteristics to something nonhuman.

• Idiom

• Onomatopoeia

• simile

• personification

a phrase or expression that presents a figurative, non-literal meaning attached to the phrase

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Idiom

• Personification

comparison of one thing with another thing of a different kind, used to make a description more emphatic using the words like or as.

• Statement

• Metaphor

• Simile

• Personification

a figure of speech in which a word or phrase is applied to an object or action to which it is not literally applicable.

• Metaphor

• Idiom

• Hyperbole

• Personification

a word that phonetically imitates the sound that it describes.

• Onomatopoeia

• Personification

• Simile

• Metaphor