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Personification
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Q.1.
Find the example of personification in the following quotation. From 'Chain of Pearls', by Rabindranath Tagore:
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'Mother, I shall weave a chain of pearls for thy neck'
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'The stars have wrought the chains of night to deck thy feet'
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'Wealth and fame come from thee'
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'And it is for thee to give or to withhold them'
Q.2.
Find the example of personification in the following quotation. From , by Harper Lee:
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'Suddenly I noticed that the men were backing away from Miss Maudie's house.'
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'The fire...had eaten its way to the roof.'
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'Smoke was rolling off our house...like fog off a riverbank.'
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'Another fire truck appeared and stopped in front of Miss Stephanie Crawford's.'
Q.3.
Find the example of personification in the following quotation. From , by John Steinbeck:
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'The red light dimmed on the coals.'
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'Up the hill from the river a coyote yammered...'
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'The sycamore leaves whispered in a little night breeze.'
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'The bunk house was a long, rectangular building.'
Q.4.
Find the example of personification in the following quotation. From 'On the Dark Height of Jura', by Percy Bysshe Shelley:
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'Ghosts of the dead! have I not heard your yelling'
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'When o'er the dark aether the tempest is swelling'
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'For oft have I stood on the dark height of Jura which frowns on the valley...'
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'O father! thy voice seems to strike on mine ear'
Q.5.
Find the example of personification in the following quotation. From 'Fall, Leaves, Fall', by Emily Bronte
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'Fall, leaves, fall; die, flowers, away'
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'Lengthen night and shorten day'
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'Every leaf speaks bliss to me'
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'Fluttering from the autumn tree'
Q.6.
Find the example of personification in the following quotation. From 'Awaking in New York', by Maya Angelou:
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'Children sleep, exchanging dreams with seraphim'
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'The city drags itself awake on subway straps'
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'I, an alarm, awake as a rumor of war'
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'Lie stretching into dawn'
Q.7.
Find the example of personification in the following quotation. From 'De Profundis', by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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'The cold before my summer's done'
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'And tender friends go sighing round'
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'And here, with hope no longer here, while the tears drop, my days go on'
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'The heart which, like a staff, was one for mine to lean and rest upon'
Q.8.
Find the example of personification in the following quotation. From 'April Rain Song', by Langston Hughes:
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'The rain makes still pools on the sidewalk'
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'The rain makes running pools in the gutter'
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'The rain plays a little sleep song on our roof at night'
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'And I love the rain.'
Q.9.
Find the example of personification in the following quotation. From 'Asleep', by Wilfred Owen
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'Under his helmet, up against his pack'
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'After so many days of work and waking'
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'Sleep took him by the brow and laid him back'
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'There, in the happy no-time of his sleeping'
Q.10.
Find the example of personification in the following quotation. From a film review, by Stella Papamichael, of :
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'As luxuriously slick as the warm vat of hair wax that went into its making...'
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'George Clooney, along with his well-groomed gang of merry thieves...'
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'Lounge like catalog models...'
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'This sequel drags its heels'
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