ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

LITERATURE QUESTIONS

GOTHIC LITERATURE

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
Which of the following is an example of personification?
A
You are as a beautiful as a flower.
B
The trees danced in the wind.
C
I waited in line for 10 years!
D
He is an encyclopedia of knowledge.
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -Personification: Giving human qualities to things and ideas. Personification Examples: The tree leaves danced in the wind.

Detailed explanation-2: -Personification is a figurative language device that involves giving human qualities to objects or animals. For example: “The leaves danced on the wind.” This sentence personifies the leaves, an inanimate object, by suggesting that they are doing something that a human might do.

Detailed explanation-3: -Another commonly used figure of speech is personification. That is where you give human-like qualities to something not human. “The flowers danced in the breeze.”

Detailed explanation-4: -Personification examples “The sun smiled down on us.” ‘The story jumped off the page.” “The light danced on the surface of the water.”

Detailed explanation-5: -A figure of speech in which an object or animal is given human feelings, thoughts, or attitudes Example: The flowers danced in the wind. Example: The classroom was a zoo. A figure of speech in which a sound is imitated. Example: Boom went the thunder.

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