Q100
‘The god of rain/turned away his face’. Which figure of speech is used here ?
- (1) alliteration
- (2) personification
- (3) oxymoron
- (4) transferred epithet
CTET 8 Feb 2026 Paper 1 English, Question 100
Read the extract given below and answer the questions that follow : (100-105)
Put away the road maps now.
To go there,
you do not need
helicopters any more;
wherever there is hunger,
there Kalahandi is.
The god of rain
turned away his face.
There was not one green leaf
left on the trees for supper.
The whole village a graveyard.
Cracked ground,
drab river sand.
All the plans failed;
the poverty line
receded further.
Solution.
CBSE answer: (2)
Answer: (2) personification
- Rain is given a human body and a human action: it has a face and turns it away.
- Giving human qualities to something non-human is personification.
- There are no repeated starting sounds (alliteration) and no pair of opposite words (oxymoron).
Trap: (4) a transferred epithet shifts an adjective to the wrong noun, which does not happen here.