Question

CALPURNIA:graves have yawned and yielded up their dead.

Which form of figurative language is used in the example above?

a)metaphor
b)soliloquy
c)personification
d)apostrophe

Answer 1

C) Personification

Step-by-step explanation:

Personification refers toa figure of speech that characterizes for giving a thing, and idea, or an animal human attributes. In other words, inanimate objects are described in such a way we feel they are able to act like human beings.

In this case the author is refering to some graves (excavations for burial of bodies), this graves "yawned" and "yielded up", suggesting to the reader that they are alive. In reality the author means they are open and the people can sometimes look inside them, the open space resembles a mouth.

Answer 2

The form of figurative language that is used in the example above is personification. The correct answer is option C. Personification is a figure of speech that attributes human characteristics to an object or to anything that is nonliving. In the example above, the actions "yawned" and "yielded up" are attributed to the nonhuman object "graves".