Question

When Alice lands at the bottom, she tries to get outside. She realizes she can't and says "Oh, how I wish I could shut up like a telescope!" In this sentence, the author uses which literary device?A.PersonificationB.SimileC.MetaphorD.Theme

Answer 1

A. Personification

Step-by-step explanation:

The personification is a literary device known as a figure of speech and is used to add human characteristics to animals and inanimate objects. An example of personification can be seen in the passage above when Alice states that she would like to shut up like a microscope.

Shutting up is a human skill, since humans have a mouth, but a microscope does not. Then, when the author decided to use this phrase, attributing the act of shutting up under the microscope, the author used the personification.