Question

In this excerpt from The Way to Rainy Mountain, the author uses language that depicts the sun as a human. He was very angry…he threw the ring and it did what he told it to do; it struck the woman and killed her, and then the sun’s child was all alone. What is the effect of this language?

Answer 1

It conveys a tone of fantasy.

Step-by-step explanation:

The author of The Way to Rainy Mountain is Scott Momaday, he used his work to provoke an emotional response from the reader. While transforming the sun and portraiting it as human he uses personification as a tool to create this magical fantasy world in his book.