Question

Read the following excerpt and answer the question.

I saw nothing without seeing [freedom], I heard nothing without hearing it, and felt nothing without feeling it. It looked from every star, it smiled in every calm, breathed in every wind, and moved in every storm.

In the above excerpt Douglass is using what form of figurative language?

simile
onomatopoeia
alliteration
personification

Answer 1

personification

Step-by-step explanation:

it refers to the freedom looking, smiling, breathing and moving, which it can't do because it is inanimate. therefore, the answer is personification.

Answer 2

alliteration because it cant be onomatopoeia or simile or personification