I would say that the answer is probably 3. Hope this helped!
-TTL
Gems, flowers, and talents can be appreciated only when they are seen.
Thomas Gray in “Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard” in the above lines laments about the unsung heroes who got buried with the time. He uses the metaphor of ‘gem’ and ‘flower’ to express the idea of unfulfilled potential which was not recognized and so were lost. As the lives of the poor and country people are lost and are buried in the country churchyard, in the same way, we ignore the best and most beautiful part of nature’s beauty.
<u><em>Personification </em></u>is the attribution of a human characteristic to something non -human. In this sentence the strings stand for a musical instrument, which is non-human. The strings cannot sing a song like humans can.
Question: which object or concept is personified here?
Answer: C. strings