The answer to your question would be personification
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When we have a quote, we often times use a colon to separate our text from the quote's text.
With this in mind, the best answer choice here is C.
Hopefully, this helps!
His mother combed his hair and washed him and told him a bedtime story
Answer:
There are no dependent clauses
And is the coordinating conjunction
"It was almost December" is an independent clause
"Jonas was beginning to be frightened is an independent clause
There aren't any prepositional phrases
Compound sentence
It adds to the overall effect on the readers because it shows that Jonas is uncertain and makes the readers realize the correction that Jonas makes to make the sentence more reasonable.
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