Identify the rhetorical device used in the following sentence: 'The desert wind whispered through the abandoned ruins of the old pearl diving village.'
Answer and explanation
Correct answer: B. Personification
- Step 1: Personification attributes human qualities, actions, or emotions to non-human entities or inanimate objects.
- Step 2: Here, the 'desert wind' is described as 'whispering', which is an anthropomorphic human action.
- Step 3: Therefore, the device is personification.
Answer
Personification.
Why not the others: 'Hyperbole' is deliberate exaggeration (e.g., 'I waited an eternity'); 'Oxymoron' combines contradictory terms (e.g., 'deafening silence'); 'Simile' compares using 'like' or 'as' (e.g., 'fast as lightning').
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