English-2
Grade-7
Easy

Question

Which poetic device is demonstrated below?
The rock stubbornly refused to move.

  1. Simile
  2. Personification
  3. Onomatopoeia
  4. None of the above

hintHint:

Personification means giving an object human traits or feelings. When you personify an object, animal, or anything else that’s not human in your writing, you make that “thing” feel more
human.

The correct answer is: Personification


    In the given sentence, the "rock", which is not human, is doing the human action of "refusing"- thus demonstrating personification. Therefore option b is the correct answer.

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