What is the effect of the figurative language in these lines? The personification shows how happiness is quick to fade. The metaphor illustrates what it was like to live in the past. The personification suggests that past happiness can last a long time. The metaphor illustrates how one can be truly happy only in spring.

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Read the line from "84" by Rabindranath Tagore.

In the joy of your heart may you feel the living joy that sang one spring morning, sending its glad voice across an hundred years.

What is the effect of the figurative language in these lines?

The personification shows how happiness is quick to fade.

The metaphor illustrates what it was like to live in the past.

The personification suggests that past happiness can last a long time.

The metaphor illustrates how one can be truly happy only in spring.

The effect of figurative language in these lines is:

The personification suggests that past happiness can last a long time.

Explanation:

Personification is a figure of speech in which an author gives a non-human thing - an object, an idea, an animal - attributes or features of a human. In the lines we are studying here, there is personification when it is said that joy sings and sends its glad voice. Joy is a feeling, not a person; it doesn't really have a voice, nor can it sing. But, when the speaker uses such personification, he says that, when we feel joy, when joy is found, it can last for a very long time. Personification helped the speaker say that in a more beautiful, poetic manner.

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