Question

Which of the following from Much Ado About Nothing provides an example of personification?

Answer 1

Personification is proving human qualities to non-human things. In Much Ado About Nothing, Benedick and Claudio frequently use personification to describe their emotions. For instance when Beatrice teases that courtesy turns disdain in Benedick’s presence, he calls courtesy a turncoat or a traitor

Answer 2

Answer:

"Is it possible disdain should die while she hath such meet food to feed it as Signior Benedick?"

Explanation:

The comedic play "Much Ado About Nothing" by William Shakespeare deals with the themes of misunderstanding, love and deception among human.

Personification is a literary device used by writers in giving humanistic traits to abstract ideas and forms. They are given characteristics or qualities of humans, making them seem as if they are animate beings too. In this play, disdain is personified as a living being capable of 'dying'. This line is spoken by Beatrice in Act I scene i of the play.