Question

the soft, unbroken snow seemed to advertise solidity beneath. what type of figurative language is this and what does it mean.

Answer 1

The soft, unbroken snow seemed to advertise solidity beneath.

what type of figurative language is this and what does it mean?

• The type of figurative language used in this sentence is personification. There is a description of an object, which is the snow, “the soft, unbroken snow”, that helps explain an idea which is, that the snow was solid, that there was not need to feel afraid of walking over it. Let us take solidity as “solid base”, as something that you can rely upon. In addition, the word “soft” and “unbroken” together combined, form a powerful connotation. That the one who walks over it, can feel happy because it is soft and trustworthy because it is unbroken. “soft” could mean in this context, tranquility, pleasing to the senses.

Answer 2

The correct answer is Personification. The reason behind why the statement or line is personification because it gave life to snow, which is an inanimate object. The human features that is given to snow brought life to snow itself, just the same as how personification is described.