Question

Read these lines from "The Bells" and answer the question. Hear the loud alarm bells - Brazen bells! What a tale of terror, now, their turbulency tells! In the startled ear of night How they scream out their affright! Too much horrified to speak, They can only shriek, shriek, Out of tune, The literary device used in these lines is _____. simile personification hyperbole onomatopoeia

Answer 1

Personification (the bells are screaming their affright and shrieking)

Answer 2

Answer: B) personification.

Explanation: personification is a figure of speech that consists in giving human characteristics to non human objects (or animals). In the given excerpt from "The Bells" we can see a clear example of personification in the sentence "How they scream out their affright! Too much horrified to speak, They can only shriek, shriek, Out of tune" because it says that the bells (non human objects) can be horrified, scream, speak and shriek (human characteristics).