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What literary device is used in the following sentence?

The stapler spit out its metal into the papers.
Question 5 options:


alliteration


idiom


metaphor


personification

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Answer:

Fourth option

Step-by-step explanation:

It's not the first option because an alliteration is an occurrence of a phrase having the same letter or sound at the beginning or throughout a sentence. It's not the second option because an idiom is a phrase not meant to be taken literally, but to mean something totally different. It's not the third option because a metaphor is comparing two things without using the words like or as. The best answer to this problem is the fourth option or "personification." Personification is when we give human qualities to an inhuman object, in this case a stapler cannot spit, spitting is a human quality which means it is a personification.

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