The snake silthered and hissed"is an example of which figurative language? Juxtoposition Onomatopoeia Personification Anaphora

## Step 1The sentence "The snake sithered and hissed" is an example of onomatopoeia. Onomatopoeia is a type of figurative language where words are used to represent or imitate natural sounds. ## Step 2In this sentence, the words "sithered" and "hissed" are onomatopoeic words because they imitate the sound a snake makes. ## Step 3The other options, Juxtaposition, Personification, and Anaphora, do not apply in this context. Juxtaposition is a literary technique where two or more ideas, places, characters, and their actions are placed side by side in a narrative or a poem, for the purpose of developing contrasts and comparisons. Personification is a figure of speech where human qualities are given to animals, objects or ideas. Anaphora is a rhetorical device that features repetition of a sequence of words at the beginnings of neighboring clauses, thereby lending them emphasis.