Question

Fill in the blank with the most suitable option:
In lines 93286- 18824, "Two dollars buys shoes for the baby" is an example of __________________.

• A. personification
• B. haphazard alliteration
• C. repetition of a phrase
• D. economic calculation
• E. illustrative allusion

Answer 1

Answer: (A)

personification

Personification is a figure of speech representing abstract quality.

Here, in the given line it is explained that what a small amount of money can do. This amount of money is enough to buy baby shoes and in this money, a kitchen boy is living his livelihood.

In this poem, a boy's condition is explained how he is living in this world with so less money by doing stuff like cleaning the spittoons in kitchen activities, cleaning hotel lobbies. All these were his part of life.

Hence option A is correct, this shows personification in lines.