Question

Which sentence is an example of personification?

a.The garden sprinklers whirled up in golden founts, filling the soft morning air with scatterings of brightness.
b.The dog ran upstairs, hysterically yelping to each door, at last realizing, as the house realized, that only silence was here.
c.At four o’clock the tables folded like great butterflies back through the paneled walls
d.The wind blew. A falling tree bough crashed through the kitchen window. Cleaning solvent, bottled, shattered over the stove

Answer 1

c. At four o’clock the tables folded like great butterflies back through the paneled walls.

Step-by-step explanation:

Personification is when an inanimate object is given the characteristics of a living thing. This means that when something that is not alive like stones or wood are given living attributes, making them look like they are alive, is known as personification.

Among the given examples, personification is seen in the sentence about the tables. Here, the tables are personified as "butterflies", capable of folding themselves like butterflies. The speaker states that "the tables folded like great butterflies", which is realistically impossible for a table to fold by itself.

Thus, the correct answer is option C.