Read the excerpt below from a passage on urban public transit:
"During the morning peak hour, the old city bus groaned under the weight of over two hundred commuters, its tires screaming in protest as it negotiated the sharp bend near the central terminal."
In the passage excerpt above, the phrase "its tires screaming in protest" is used figuratively to
- personify the tires to emphasize the severe physical mechanical strain placed on the vehicle.Answer
- Breport that the passengers inside the bus were vocalizing panic due to reckless driving.
- Cindicate that the vehicle was equipped with an automated audible emergency alarm.
- Dprove that the transport management intentionally overloaded the vehicle to cause an accident.
Answer
The phrase personifies the tires to emphasize the severe physical mechanical strain placed on the vehicle.
The expression 'screaming in protest' endows inanimate rubber tires with human emotional actions (screaming, protesting). Contextually, this personification vividly communicates the extreme noise and mechanical friction produced when an overloaded bus negotiates a turn.
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Contextual Interpretation of Personification