By using as fast as it creates imagery that makes the reader believe he turn the light on as fast as he could. In a literal sense he didn’t figurative language is used to describe something in a fun way. (Or at least that’s how I remember it)
Answer: Personification is the attribution of a personal nature or human characteristics to something nonhuman, or the representation of an abstract quality in human form.
Examples:
- The leaves whistles quietly in the morning breeze.
- The volcano growls loudly with pride.
or
- The stairs groaned as we walked on them.
- The moon played hide and seek with the clouds.
To show the progression of inventions