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प्रश्न
Read the line given below and answer the question that follow.
..........Free imaginations
Bringing changes into a world resenting change.
- How does free imagination help the world?
- Identify the figure of speech.
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उत्तर
- Free imagination brings changes to the world.
- Personification
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