Question

Sylvia would have liked him vastly better without his gun; she could not understand why he killed the very birds he seemed to like so much. But as the day waned, Sylvia still watched the young man with loving admiration. She had never seen anybody so charming and delightful; the woman's heart, asleep in the child, was vaguely thrilled by a dream of love.
This excerpt provides an example of _____.

hyperbole
metaphor
personification
simile

Answer 1

Answer: C) Personification.

Explanation: personification is a figure of speech that consists in giving human characteristics to non human objects (or animals). In the given excerpt we can see an example of the use of personification in the phrase " the woman's heart, asleep in the child, was vaguely thrilled by a dream of love" it gives the heart (non human object) the ability of falling asleep and of being thrilled (human characteristics).