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AssignmentMultiple Choice

Style in Poems by Rabindranath Tagore

Question 2 • NY-English Language Arts 12 CR

What is the effect of the words "the living joy that sang one spring morning, sending its glad voice across an hundred years”?

Answer
A
The personification suggests that the happiness of the past is eternal.
B
The metaphor shows that happiness is “alive” but can only be found in others.
C
The metaphor illustrates that nothing changes over the course of one hundred years.
D
The personification allows the reader to imagine life in the past.

Explanation

The phrase gives joy a voice that can sing and carry across a century, treating an abstract feeling as if it were alive. This personification suggests that the happiness experienced in the past can endure and still be felt long afterward. Choice A best captures that effect; the words do not claim that nothing changes or that happiness is found only in other people.

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