Choose the sentence that is an example of personification:

The correct answer is Option (3) → The tall coconut trees waved goodbye to our train as it left the station.

Personification:

• Personification gives human qualities or actions to a thing, an animal or an idea.
• The coconut trees “waved goodbye”, as people do when a friend leaves.

Why the Other Options are Incorrect?

Option 1: In winter, Dadi’s thick quilt is a warm cave for all the grandchildren. — Incorrect. This sentence uses a metaphor, which says that one thing is another without “like” or “as”. The quilt is called “a warm cave”.

Option 2: With the teacher on leave, the students sat through a bored afternoon in the empty classroom. — Incorrect. This sentence uses a transferred epithet, a describing word moved from a person to a thing linked to them. The students were bored, but “bored” is put on the afternoon.

Option 4: My little cousin asks enough questions in a day to fill ten notebooks. — Incorrect. This sentence uses hyperbole, a big exaggeration made for effect. Nobody asks questions enough to “fill ten notebooks” in a day.