Question

water is bright and gay when the sun shines which figure of speech used in the sentence​

Answer 1

The figure of speech used in this sentence is personification. In personification non human objects/ things are made to act like a human being.

Here water is a non human object which is  attributed with human qualities to be gay(happy) and bright(shining). Water is portrayed in such a way that we feel water also has the ability to show feelings like human beings do.

Thus personification helps readers to connect emotionally with the object. It is  a very good tool to catch the attention of the readers.

Answer 2

‘Water is bright and gay when the sun shines’ the figure of speech used in the sentence is Personification.

Explanation:  

• Figure of speech is a type of grammatical application that is used to improve the structure of the sentence. Personification is the figure of speech that is used in this statement.  

• Water an inanimate object. Hence it cannot be bright and gay. Gay means happy and it is an emotion of human or an animal which has been portrayed for water.  

• The figure of speech which has been uses personification since water has been compared to human being.