Which sentence in this excerpt from the mother's recompense by edith wharton uses personification?
1)with impatient fingers she began all over again.

2)the maid's voice, seeming to come from a long way off, respectfully reminded her that the chocolate would be getting cold.
3) she wanted to settle that question of ages.

4)as aline approached with the glass there was a knock at the door.

1 because fingers cant be impatient

1) With impatient fingers she began all over again.

Explanation: personification is a figure of speech that consists in giving human characteristics to non human objects (or animals). From the given options, the sentence from "Mother's Recompense" by Edith Wharton that represents an example of personification, is the corresponding to option 1, because it is giving the fingers (non human objects) the ability of being impatient (which is a human characteristic).

themselves

an intensive pronoun is a pronoun that ends in self or selves, such as himself, herself, themselves, yourself, ourselves. since band members is a third person plural, the correct intensive pronoun would be themselves. if the band was talked about as a collective noun, itself would be the appropriate intensive pronoun. intensive pronouns are used to add emphasis to the noun it's modifying which is why it directly follows it.

d. the two authors are in awe of nature; their experiences, reveal that time in nature can change people.

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