Question

Select the correct text in the passage. In which line from this excerpt of John Keats's "Ode to Autumn" has the poet personified the season of autumn as a young maiden? Sometimes whoever seeks abroad may find Thee sitting careless on a granary floor, Thy hair soft-lifted by the winnowing wind; Or on a half-reap'd furrow sound asleep, Drows'd with the fume of poppies, while thy hook Spares the next swath and all its twined flowers: And sometimes like a gleaner thou dost keep Steady thy laden head across a brook; Or by a cyder-press, with patient look, Thou watchest the last oozings hours by hours. Where are the songs of Spring? Ay, where are they? Think not of them, thou hast thy music too,-- While barred clouds bloom the soft-dying day, And touch the stubble-plains with rosy hue; Then in a wailful choir the small gnats mourn Among the river sallows, borne aloft Or sinking as the light wind lives or dies; And full-grown lambs loud bleat from hilly bourn; Hedge-crickets sing; and now with treble soft The red-breast whistles from a garden-croft;

Answer 1

The answers for Plato users is Thy hair soft-lifted by the winnowing wind;

Answer 2

Personification is a literary device that adds human traits an qualities to inanimate objects, situations, and even animals.

The text in the passage that uses that literary device is Sometimes whoever seeks abroad may find Thee sitting careless on a granary floor, Thy hair soft-lifted by the winnowing wind.

Here the poet is giving to Autumn human qualities similar to the ones in a lady, talking about her hair and how it flows with the winds of fall, when in fact he is talking about elements in nature during that season.