English Questions

Metonymy is a figure of speech in which a thing or concept is referred to by the name of something closely associated with that thing or concept. Hence it occurs when a word is replaced by a word that has an obvious relation to itself.

In the given example of the text, the bones refer to the human being.

"The moon smiled at me" is the example of personification in the given options.

Personification is a technique in which we give objects human traits like emotions, gestures, speech,... by using metaphor. 

Here moon is an object which cannot smile but using metaphor sense, we gave that sense to it.

Ominous is the correctly spelt word in the given options. It means that giving the worrying impression that something bad is going to happen.

Alliteration is an example of Consonance. Consonance is the repetition of consonant sounds in words that are close to one another in a piece of text.

Example is "Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers."

Whereas

Assonance is the repetition of vowel sounds, sometimes creating end rhymes.

Like commas, semicolons indicate an audible pause — slightly longer than a comma's, but short of a period's full stop.

Rules for Semicolon ::

1. A semicolon can replace a period if the writer wishes to narrow the gap between two closely linked sentences.

2. Use a semicolon before such words and terms as namely, however, therefore, that is, i.e., for example, e.g., for instance, etc., when they introduce a complete sentence. It is also preferable to use a comma after these words and terms.

3. Avoid a semicolon when a dependent clause comes before an independent clause.

4. Use a semicolon to separate units of a series when one or more of the units contain commas.

Hence according to rule no. 2) option (C) He ate; however, he didn't sleep is correctly puctuated with a semicolon.