Question
You want to add more figurative language to your story. You write the following sentence from your first paragraph.
Durgle lived in Sindara, a land full of mountains whose fingertips reached towards blue skies.
What type of figurative language is used in “mountains whose fingertips reach towards blue skies”?
Question 6 options:
Onomatopoeia
Personification
Simile
Metaphor
Durgle lived in Sindara, a land full of mountains whose fingertips reached towards blue skies.
What type of figurative language is used in “mountains whose fingertips reach towards blue skies”?
Question 6 options:
Onomatopoeia
Personification
Simile
Metaphor
Answers
GPT-5 mini
Personification.
You're giving the mountains a human trait (fingertips that "reach"), which attributes human action/qualities to a nonhuman thing. (Not onomatopoeia, and not a simile since it doesn't use "like" or "as".)
You're giving the mountains a human trait (fingertips that "reach"), which attributes human action/qualities to a nonhuman thing. (Not onomatopoeia, and not a simile since it doesn't use "like" or "as".)