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.
In writing, especially when writing prose of a fictional character, an author uses a series of techniques that seek to engage a reader and interest him/her in not only the event that is taking place, but also the characters within the event and the idea being portrayed by the author. This is a what a story is, its a telling of an event, or series of events with the use of characters, settings and ideas. All stories have a structure, that a writer uses to reach his/her main goal. A climax in a story is the main event or the epitome circumstance after which things begin to become resolved. All stories build themselves up to this climax, this one central moment, through the use of a series of events that lead to the climax, and the name of this series of events is rising action (option B).
The first sentence. There should be a comma after surprised.