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>
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These are the following choices:
<span>A.The narrator feels inadequate when she reports seeing a supernatural being and nobody believes her.
B.The narrator feels like she lacks control of her own fate when her superiors refuse to answer her questions.
<u>C.The narrator is dismissed by her superiors when she asks questions about a occurrence that may have been supernatural.</u>
D.The narrator fears that she may be doomed when she witnesses a strange woman walking around the home.</span>
<h2><em>Slouching over, Yawning, Chin in your hand, etc.</em></h2>