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d. Datum 4:
The full moon awaited its final call to center stage to take over the night shift.
p.116
Explanation:
The quotation above is taken from the event at night when Elizabeth drives her car to get to her father’s house on visiting purpose. The day just passes to the
night, as on her way she thinks many problems she worried, especially about Ivan, Luke and competitors in the hotel project.
In the sentence, the author imagines the phrase ‘fool moon’ as human who is doing the freelance job. But the readers cannot take this sentence literally. The
author means that the moon is visible in the night and invisible in the daylight. Logically, the moon has no capacity to wait as human, because it is just the
phenomenon of solar system. This sight builds the personification due to same image seemed in both phenomenal; an employer who works in shift comes and
works only on certain time and the moon that appears only in the night and changed by the sun in the morning.
e. Datum 5:
The crickets continued to chatter loudly to each other. p.116
Explanation:
The word ‘crickets’ in the sentence above is imagined as having conversation each other. In a matter of fact, it is the voice of animal crickets that
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forth, as human traits that call and answer each other when they talked. The phenomenon above is heard when Elizabeth arrives in her father
garden and parks her car in front of the house. The sentence also gives the effect of lonely that she felt as her father uses not to welcome her home. Even she can
hear the sound of Crickets clearly. The figure of speech evokes readers’ mind to imagine cricket as human.
However, both of them are creature. In this case, chatter loudly to each other has different concept between human and crickets.
f. Datum 6:
Her school skirt lifting and dancing around her legs while her heavy school laden with the book stooped her back
. p.139
Explanation:
In the sentence above, Elizabeth’s school skirt is imagined as having hands, feet, and body to dance. In fact, the skirt cannot dance; it is being scraped
by her steps and winds that blown around her. The author creates the personification by putting an inanimate object ‘skirt’ as if it could do human’s
capacity ‘dance’. This event is described when little Elizabeth arrived from her school with
the book and bag in her hand and returned back to the house with the wind in the dark evening that blown her skirt, but, no one welcomed her home. The figure of
speech describes lonely little Elizabeth who felt like no one loved her and hoped the welcome from her family member when she got home. Here is the quotation in
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end of long road that led from Bungalow, leaving her alone on her walk to the front door, where nobody stood to greet her.
p.139
g. Datum 7:
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