Final answer:
The phrase 'Beheading the carrots' is an example of personification because it attributes human characteristics to nonhuman entities, suggesting that carrots have heads as humans do.
Step-by-step explanation:
The phrase “Beheading the carrots” is an example of personification. Personification is a figure of speech where human qualities are given to animals, objects, or ideas. By using the term “beheading,” which typically refers to a very human and violent action, the sentence implies that the carrots have a human-like head, thus imbuing them with life and personality.
This is different from synecdoche, which is when a part of something represents the whole or the whole represents a part, and from metonymy, when a thing is represented by another thing associated with it. It is also not an apostrophe, which is when a speaker directly addresses someone or something that is not present or cannot respond. It is also not a metaphor, which is a direct comparison between two unlike things without using 'like' or 'as'.
The phrase 'beheading the carrots' is an example of metonymy, where one thing is represented by another thing associated with it. In this case, 'beheading' is being used to represent the action of chopping or cutting the carrots. It is not an example of personification because the act of beheading is not a distinctly human behavior.
Therefore answer is D) Metaphor.