Directions : Read the extract given below and answer the questions that follow by selecting the correct/most appropriate options : Great, wide, beautiful, wonderful world, With the wonderful water around you curled, And the wonderful grass upon your breast World, you are beautifully drest. The wonderful air is over me, And the wonderful wind is shaking the tree, It walks on the water, and whirls the mills, And talks to itself on the tops of the hills. You friendly Earth, how far do you go, With the wheat - fields that nod and the rivers that flow With cities and gardens, and cliffs and isles, And people upon you for thousands of miles ? Ah ! You are so great and I am so small, I tremble to think of you, world, at all; And yet when I said my prayers today, A whisper inside me seemed to say, "You are more than the Earth, though you are such a dot, You can love and think, and the Earth cannot !" The figure of speech used in the first stanza of the extract is :
The figure of speech used in the first stanza of the extract is "Personification," which is correctly identified as Option 4. Let's delve into why this is the correct choice and why the other options are not applicable. 1. Personification (Correct Answer - Option 4): - Personification is a literary device where human qualities are attributed to non-human entities. In the first stanza, the world is described as being "beautifullyā¦Read More
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