Question

"No, she must keep silence! What is it that suddenly forbids her and makes her dumb? Has she been nine years growing and now, when the great world for the first time puts out a hand to her, must she thrust it aside for a bird's sake?"

The phrase "when the great world for the first time puts out a hand to her" is an example of
A. simile.
B. personification.
C. foreshadowing.
D. metaphor.

Answer 1

it should be personification

Answer 2

Option B. The phrase "when the great world for the first time puts out a hand to her" is an example of personification.

Step-by-step explanation:

Personification is a figure of speech in which an object or a non human things or organism is given human attributes. The phrase "when the great world for the first time puts out a hand to her" is a personification as it is giving the world, which is a planet, a human attribution of "holding a hand to someone" in an effort of helping them.