Question

What is the figure of speech for “The country wears perfect rows of shining teeth “

Answer 1

Figure of Speech

The figure of speech in the sentence “The country wears perfect rows of shining teeth “ is Personification.

Explanation:

• Personification is a figure of speech that helps represent an abstract quality.
• It refers to the art of assigning human characters to a non human entity so that the non human entity behaves like a person.
• In the given line, “The country wears perfect rows of shining teeth “, the country is the subject. It is definitely a non living thing and not a human being.
• But the word  'wears'  gives it a human trait.
• Only human beings are attributed the action word 'wear'.
• Humans wear clothes, dresses and other accessories unlike non-humans who have nothing to wear.
• In the given sentence the country is attributed the human trait of 'wear'.
• Hence the figure of speech is personification, and the country has been personified.

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