Question

Which figure of speech does Thoreau use to show how loud the bird was in the sentence: "The cockerels crow on the trees, clear and piercing for miles over the resounding earth! It would put nations on the alert."

Personification

Metaphor

Simile

Hyperbole

Answer 1

Answer:

The answer is D.) Hyperbole.

Explanation:

Hyperbole is used when exaggerating. In the sentence, "It would put nations on alert," is using exaggeration. By all means, the answer would be D.

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Answer 2

Hyperbole is the figure of speech that Thoreau uses to how the bird was in the sentence.

• Hyperbole is a type of speech that uses exaggeration to describe something.
• It is used to emphasize and intensify feelings and heightened emotions. Hyperbole uses non-literal terms to evoke such feelings and emotions.  
• Hyperbole is also called auxesis, in rhetoric.
• The Greek term 'huperbole' which means "to throw above" gave birth to the word 'hyperbole'.