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Identify the correct figure of speech used in the following statement.

The anxious chair creaked in the waiting room.

Solution

✅ Correct Option: 3

'Anxious' logically describes the people waiting in the room, but the adjective is shifted onto the chair. When a human feeling is transferred from a person to an inanimate object associated with them, the device is a transferred epithet. Personification would require the chair itself to act with human intent, which is not the emphasis here.

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