Pick out an example of Personification from the extract: - Vidyadip

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Pick out an example of Personification from the extract:

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I watched the flame feeding on my mother' The flame is given the human quality of feeding.

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(a) I stand and look at them long and long.
(b) They do not sweat and whine about their condition.
(c) They do not make me sick discussing their duty to God.
(d).. not one is demented with the mania of owning things.
(e) They bring me tokens of myself. - Paradox
(f) No one is respectable or unhappy over the whole earth. - Hyperbole

Name and explain the figure of speech:
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(a) Tagore wishes for a nation where people are truthful.

(b) The poet would like everyone to work hard to reach their goal and in the long run to reach perfection.

(c) The poet wishes that everyone in his country holds his head high in dignity.

(d) The poet dreams of a nation where knowledge should be free to all.

(e) The poem is a 'prayer'.

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(1)....but still we keep a bower quiet for us....
(a) Simile (b) Irony (c) Metaphor
(2) Some shape of beauty moves away the pall.....
(a) Personification (b) Alliteration (c) Hyperbole
(3) A thing of beauty is a joy forever....
(a) Epigram (b) Antithesis (c) Climax
(4) Trees old and young, sprouting a shady boon.
(a) Exclamation (b) Personification (c) Antithesis

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(a) the rhyme scheme of lines 1 to 8.
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(1) In wondrous, merry mood	(a) Repetition
(2) They were so queer, so very queer	(b) Alliteration
(3) A sober man am I	(c) Tautology
(4) To mind a slender man like me	(d) Inversion

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