English-2
Grade-9
Easy

Question

Identify the object or animal being personified and what they are doing makes it a personification.
The stairs groaned as we walked on them.

  1. Groaned
  2. Stairs
  3. The stairs groaned

hintHint:

Personification means giving human qualities to an abstract as in a movie villain who is the personification of evil.

The correct answer is: The stairs groaned


    Personification is a literary technique writers use to add human qualities to non-human things. 'The stairs groaned as we walked on them', in this sentence 'the stairs' is non-living object but is given human quality like 'groaned'.

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