Choose the correct figure of speech used in the sentence from the options given below:-
The daffodils bade the fly goodbye.
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 1
The correct answer is Option (1) → Personification
To bid someone goodbye is a human act. The daffodils are shown saying goodbye to the fly, so the device is personification.
| Option | What it is | Example |
|---|---|---|
| (1) Personification (answer) | Personification is a figure of speech that gives human qualities or actions to a thing, an animal or an idea. | The stars winked at us from the night sky. |
| (2) Metaphor | A metaphor compares two things by saying that one is the other, without "like" or "as". The daffodils are not called something else. They are given a human action. | Time is a thief that steals our youth. |
| (3) Transferred Epithet | A transferred epithet moves an adjective from the person it describes to a nearby thing. The sentence has no such adjective. | He spent a sleepless night before the exam. |
| (4) Metonymy | Metonymy uses the name of a thing closely linked with something to stand for it. "The daffodils" mean only the flowers here, not something linked to them. | The pen is mightier than the sword. |