Question

Reread this sentence from paragraph 7:

Now I realize that I must have been assaulted by a
tall, aggressive truck.
Which of the following BEST explains how the authors
used figurative language to express a tone toward the
truck?
They used a simile to make the
truck seem magnificently large and
fast.
They used a simile to make the
truck seem clumsy and foolish.
They used personification to make
the truck seem brave and dashing.
They used personification to make
the truck seem mean and violent.

Answer 1

They used personification to make the truck seem mean and violent.

Step-by-step explanation:

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Answer 2

They used personification to make the truck seem mean and violent.

Step-by-step explanation:

As you can see in the sentence above, the author used the adjectives "loud" and "aggressive" to characterize the truck that hit the narrator. However, a truck is an object, an inanimate being and the adjectives "tall" and "aggressive" are characteristics associated with human beings. However, when the author uses these adjectives to characterize the truck, it allows the reader to have a feeling that the truck is cruel, without manners and violent.

The personification is the figure of speech that has this ability to associate human characteristics with inanimate objects to make these objects appear in a certain way. In this case, we can say that the author used impersonation to make the truck look cruel and violent.