Question

What figurative language is this?: the howling dog by the door of the house

Answer 1

Answer:

The moon has a face like the clock in the hall;

She shines on thieves on the garden wall,

On streets and fields and harbor quays,

And birdies asleep in the forks of the trees.

The squalling cat and the squeaking mouse,

The howling dog by the door of the house,

The bat that lies in bed at noon,

All love to be out by the light of the moon.

But all of the things that belong to the day

Cuddle to sleep to be out of her way;

And flowers and children close their eyes

Till up in the morning the sun shall arise.

Answer 2

The figure of speech  in the given sentence is personification.

• The sentence is from the poem The moon by Robert Louis Stevenson.
• The poet has described the poem from a person's view. Personification is a speech figure in which non-living objects are represented as appearing to be people.
• Thus, the figurative speech in the poem is personification.