A teenager trying to find his job but can’t find a good paying one because of his record
The author is using a type of figurative language called personification. Personification is when you give human characteristics or traits to something that is non human. When the author writes, "<span>the sea licked greedy lips in the shadows." the author is giving the sea human characteristics. The sea does not actually have lips.</span>
A sentence taken word for word from a book is called a DIRECT quotation.
