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quotation in the novel: She knew in her heart that her mother would eventually return, cheeks flushed, eyes bright, and speaking breathlessly of the world and all
it had offer. p.5 The figure of speech also describes Elizabeth feeling by
personifying the summer breeze as what she felt excitement and hope, as the summer breeze presents good and comfortable weather.
c. Datum 3:
It was as though even the grandfather clock in the hall was waiting for her mother to return.
p.7
Explanation:
The word ‘clock’ is personified as human who is standing and waiting for someone, as if it has feet to support the body to stand. Actually it means that
everyone in the home always waited for Elizabeth’s mother to return, but there were no signs of her returning. As the time passed by, Elizabeth knew that her
mother was trapped by marriage and motherhood and decided to leave them by exploring new places. It took Grainne to the long journey. Everyone in the house
felt the house was dull without her. Even the old clock of Elizabeth’s grandfather still set in the same position since her mother was a new comer in the house.
The personification above emphasizes the very long journey of Elizabeth\s mother, the very long of her disappearance, and her family exhaustion in waiting
the woman whom they loved.
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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:
