Q.1
Find the example of personification in the following quotation. From 'Chain of Pearls', by Rabindranath Tagore:
  • 'Mother, I shall weave a chain of pearls for thy neck'
  • 'The stars have wrought the chains of night to deck thy feet'
  • 'Wealth and fame come from thee'
  • '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:
  • 'Suddenly I noticed that the men were backing away from Miss Maudie's house.'
  • 'The fire...had eaten its way to the roof.'
  • 'Smoke was rolling off our house...like fog off a riverbank.'
  • '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:
  • 'The red light dimmed on the coals.'
  • 'Up the hill from the river a coyote yammered...'
  • 'The sycamore leaves whispered in a little night breeze.'
  • '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:
  • 'Ghosts of the dead! have I not heard your yelling'
  • 'When o'er the dark aether the tempest is swelling'
  • 'For oft have I stood on the dark height of Jura which frowns on the valley...'
  • '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
  • 'Fall, leaves, fall; die, flowers, away'
  • 'Lengthen night and shorten day'
  • 'Every leaf speaks bliss to me'
  • 'Fluttering from the autumn tree'
Q.6
Find the example of personification in the following quotation. From 'Awaking in New York', by Maya Angelou:
  • 'Children sleep, exchanging dreams with seraphim'
  • 'The city drags itself awake on subway straps'
  • 'I, an alarm, awake as a rumor of war'
  • 'Lie stretching into dawn'
Q.7
Find the example of personification in the following quotation. From 'De Profundis', by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
  • 'The cold before my summer's done'
  • 'And tender friends go sighing round'
  • 'And here, with hope no longer here, while the tears drop, my days go on'
  • '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:
  • 'The rain makes still pools on the sidewalk'
  • 'The rain makes running pools in the gutter'
  • 'The rain plays a little sleep song on our roof at night'
  • 'And I love the rain.'
Q.9
Find the example of personification in the following quotation. From 'Asleep', by Wilfred Owen
  • 'Under his helmet, up against his pack'
  • 'After so many days of work and waking'
  • 'Sleep took him by the brow and laid him back'
  • '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 :
  • 'As luxuriously slick as the warm vat of hair wax that went into its making...'
  • 'George Clooney, along with his well-groomed gang of merry thieves...'
  • 'Lounge like catalog models...'
  • 'This sequel drags its heels'
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