Question

What type of figurative language
is the following sentence?
"In the kitchen, the breakfast
stove gave a hissing sigh..."

Answer 1

Answer:

Personification

Explanation:

Personification gives inhuman objects human qualities or actions, here the stove "gave a hissing sigh", which suggests a human like action because stoves don't typically "sigh" but humans do.

Answer 2

This would be personification. This is because it is giving an object human like functions.