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past year questions, CUET English 2022 5 Aug Shift 1

Literary Devices

past year questions, Verbal Ability, CUET English 2022 5 Aug Shift 1

Medium

From the given options, select the one which correctly identifies the figure of speech (poetic device) used in the expression:

Death lays his icy hand on kings

Solution

✅ Correct Option: 3

'Death lays his icy hand on kings' gives Death a human attribute (a hand) and action (laying it). Attributing human qualities to a non-human abstract idea is personification. It is not a comparison (simile), contradiction (oxymoron), or irony.

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