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Choose the option that correctly identifies the figure of speech used in the following lines:

"Busy old fool, unruly sun,

Why dost thou thus,

Through windows and through curtains call on us?"

Solution

✅ Correct Option: 3

The sun is addressed directly and given human traits, being called a busy old fool and unruly and said to call on the speaker. Attributing human qualities and actions to a non-human thing is personification. There is no implied comparison of two unlike things, and no part stands for the whole.

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