Question

At night, the wind howled through the trees. This sentence is an example of which type of figurative language?

• Oxymoron

• Slant rhyme

• Onomatopoeia

• Simile

Answer 1

The sentence "At night, the wind howled through the trees" is an example of onomatopoeia. Onomatopoeia is a figure of speech where words imitate the sounds they describe, and in this case, the word "howled" imitates the sound of the wind blowing loudly and fiercely.