Question

Which sentence includes an example of personification?

• A. Banjaras of Rajasthan are the human equivalent of an endangered species and have no defence against the encroachment of farmers onto their ancestral lands.
• B. Take airline pilots for example; they do not need to be graduates to qualify for this job and most pilots are on a salary of Rs. 300,000 per month or more.
• C. Recent research provided stark evidence that in education money still plays an important role; it was found that children from poor households could not perform as well as children from rich households.
• D. Girls in the family should have a share in the ancestral property as a matter of right whether the will includes it explicitly or not.

Hint:

Look for a non-human or abstract subject paired with a verb that only a person would normally do; that pairing is personification.

Answer 1

The Correct Option is C

Personification gives a human action or quality to something that is not human, an idea, an object, or an abstract noun acting like a person. We need the sentence where a non-human thing is shown doing something only a person normally does.

1. Option A: Compares Banjaras to an endangered species; this is a comparison between two groups (humans and animals), which is closer to an analogy, not a case of a non-human thing acting like a human.
2. Option B: A plain factual statement about pilots' qualifications and pay; nothing non-human is given a human trait here.
3. Option C: Says "research provided stark evidence." Research is an abstract activity, not a person, yet here it is described as actively "providing" something, an action normally performed by a person presenting facts. This assigns a human-like action to an abstract noun, which is personification.
4. Option D: A literal statement about inheritance rights; no figurative language is used at all.

Option C is the sentence where an abstract, non-human noun (research) is described performing a human action (providing evidence), so it is the example of personification.

Let's summarize:

• Personification means giving a human action to something non-human.
• "Research provided...evidence" (option C) hands a human action to an abstract idea.
• The other sentences are literal statements or a direct comparison, not personification.

So the answer is option C.