Answer:
1. Why can't orphans play baseball? They don't know where home is.
2. I started crying when dad was cutting onions. Onions was such a good dog.
3. My elderly relatives liked to tease me at weddings, saying, "You'll be next!" They soon stopped though, once I started doing the same to them at funerals.
4. I was digging in our garden when I found a chest full of gold coins. I was about to run straight home to tell my wife about it, but then I remembered why I was digging in our garden.
Explanation:
Answer: Personification is the attribution of a personal nature or human characteristics to something nonhuman, or the representation of an abstract quality in human form.
Examples:
- The leaves whistles quietly in the morning breeze.
- The volcano growls loudly with pride.
or
- The stairs groaned as we walked on them.
- The moon played hide and seek with the clouds.
If you see someone with a tear in their eye, what do you assume?
Does the tear indicate that they are happy, sad, or indifferent? Choose the answer that is most likely the case.
