Question

When they reached the door of the lonely house and stopped to unlock it, and the cat came to purr loudly, and rub against them, a deserted cat, indeed, but fat with young robins, Sylvia whispered that this was a beautiful place to live in, and she never should wish to go home.
The description of the house in this excerpt gives an example of _____.

foreshadowing
metaphor
personification
vernacular

Answer 1

Answer: C) Personification.

Explanation: personification is a figure of speech that consists in giving human characteristics to non human objects (or animals). In the given excerpt we can see an example of personification in the description of the house, it says "the lonely house." A house is a non human object, and being lonely is a human characteristic, so the correct answer is the corresponding to option C.

Answer 2

Answer:

Personification

Explanation:

I say personification because a house cannot be lonely. So they are giving a house human features.