Question

Identify personification in the given sentence:
She was so busy with her work, we all felt that she was married to her job.

• A. was so busy
• B. her work
• C. we all felt
• D. she was married to her job

Answer 1

The correct option is D she was married to her job

Personification is a figure of speech, in which inanimate objects or abstract ideas are given human-like qualities; they're spoken of as if they're human beings. For example, "Opportunity knocks at the door but once", opportunity is an abstract idea that is spoken of as if it has hands to knock with. In the given sentence, the "job" is given the quality of a human, to whom the person "she" seems to be married to; hence the phrase in option D is a personification and D is correct. "Was so busy" is a verb phrase that expresses the past tense, "her work" is a phrase with a pronoun and noun, "we all felt" is a phrase with a subject and a verb. These three phrases do not function as personification but as verbs and nouns, hence options A, B and C are incorrect.