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