Question

"Yonder sky has wept tears of compassion" is an example of

A. assonance.
B. alliteration.
C. consonance.
D. personification.

Answer 1

D. personification *just took the penn foster test*

Answer 2

The correct answer is D. Personification.

That is because the sky cannot really weep tears. It is given the human ability of crying so as to present the rain falling as something more poetic.