LANGUAGE AND CULTURE

LINGUISTIC RELATIVITY

GENRE AND FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
giving human qualities or characteristics to something that isn’t human like an animal or object
A
onomatopoeia
B
simile
C
metaphor
D
personification
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -What Is Anthropomorphism? Anthropomorphism is a literary device that assigns human characteristics to nonhuman entities like animals or inanimate objects. Examples of anthropomorphism can be found in narratives both old and new. Anthropomorphic characters appear in ancient Greek myths and many of Aesop’s Fables.

Detailed explanation-2: -Anthropomorphism: The attribution of human characteristics or behaviors to an animal, object, or a god. Personification: The attribution of a personal nature or human characteristics to something non-human, or the representation of an abstract quality in human form.

Detailed explanation-3: -Personification Personification is giving human qualities, feelings, action, or characteristics to inanimate (non-living) objects. For example: The window winked at me. The verb, wink, is a human action. A window is an inanimate object.

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