Question

question 21 of 21
read the following sentence:
the sun angrily threw down its rays.
which poetic device does this sentence use?
a. slant rhyme
b. alliteration
c. personification
d. simile

Explanation:

Personification is a poetic device that gives human traits, emotions, or actions to non-human things. The sun is a non-human celestial body, but the sentence attributes the human emotion "angrily" and the human action "threw" to it, which matches the definition of personification. Slant rhyme refers to near-rhyming words, alliteration is the repetition of initial consonant sounds, and a simile uses "like" or "as" to compare two things, none of which are present here.

Answer:

C. Personification