Let us define the choices first. There are two
figures of speech here: Simile and Personification. Simile is relating
two things that are in some way, the same while personification
is assigning the person’s qualities to something non-living. Cliché is
using something (a word, phrase, idea, etc) again and again until it loses its
meaning and a pun (or paronomasia) makes a play on words by using words with
double meanings or homonyms. With respect to their meanings, ‘barking up the
wrong tree’ is a personification. If we likened the phrase with an example, A
person is getting angry on the wrong person.
