Which of the following lines is an example of personification? A. "... and his great sides matted with sweat, filled everyone wi
th admiration.” B. “He was a sly-looking little man with side whiskers.” C. “Building had to stop because it was now too wet to mix the cement.” D. “Only after weeks of vain effort did the right idea occur to somebody–namely, to utilise the force of gravity."
The following lines that is an example of personification is:
<u>C. “Building had to stop because it was now too wet to mix the cement.”</u>
Personification is the literary technique that is used to give human qualities to an inanimate object.
Some examples of personification is:
"The moon smiled on us"
"The ocean waved at the boys"
According to the given answer choices, we can see that a building which is an inanimate object is said to have stopped working, which is a human attribute.
