"The evening breeze had sprung up...the cordage had begun to sing a little softly to itself and idle sails to rattle to and fro." Is this a simile, metaphor, personification, onomatopoeia or hyperbole? PLEASE HELP!!?
1 Answer
Jul 8, 2016
Personification.
Explanation:
Personification is the use of human verbs when describing objects that do not have the same certain abilities.
We see in the sentence a few examples:
"The evening breeze had sprung up...the cordage had begun to sing a little softly to itself and idle sails rattle to and fro."
A gust of wind can't 'spring'. This is how we know this is personification. Same goes for 'sing'. These human actions are called personification.
