Question

9. Identify the figures of speech in the line: 'The young trees sprinting.'
a. Pun
b. Personification
C. Simile
d. Eupheme
ed in the stanza?​

Answer 1

• The figures of speech personification has been used in the line: 'The young trees sprinting.'
• Personification consists in investing abstract ideas or inanimate objects with the attributes of a living being. There is an instinct in man's nature which urges him to believe that inanimate objects are endowed with sensibility, and that they can think, feel and act like human beings.
• In this poem, the poet uses the device of personification with respect to trees and they are running alongside.

Answer 2

Answer:

The figure of speech used in the line: The young trees sprinting.' is option b. Personification

Explanation:

Personification is the technique or practice of representing objects, qualities, etc. as humans, in art and literature. Poems, ‘The Brook’, ‘Song of the Rain’, and ‘Ode to Autumn’ are some famous examples of personification.