Question

Which of the following is an example of personification?

• A. Poets may write the Mischief to impeach (line 97211)
• B. What honest Pen has Patience to refrain? (line 29103)
• C. And run so very evenly your Race (line 39563)
• D. Y' improve in Wit just as you do in Grace (line 60403)
• E. It must be so, some Doemon has possest (line 92355)

Answer 1

The correct option is B What honest Pen has Patience to refrain? (line 29103)

Personification is figure of speech in which quality or attribution of personal nature or representation of some abstract quality in human form.

The given answer B is correct here the statement is honest pen has patience to refrain means pen has the abstract quality of honesty and patience to stop.

Here poet is saying that a writers thoughts are honest towards something, a person can't ignore what a writer writes , what a parsons preach, what is truth of life , How can you ignore all these ?

The poet in this poem is teaching about life lessons.