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Read this excerpt from the text "Look Homeward, Angel."
With his great hands he had laid the foundations, burrowed out deep musty cellars in the earth, and sheeted the tall
sides over with smooth trowellings of warm brown plaster. He had very little money, but his strange house grew to
the rich modelling of his fantasy: when he had finished he had something which leaned to the slope of his narrow
uphill yard, something with a high embracing porch in front, and warm rooms where one stepped up and down to the
tackings of his whim.
Which best describes the author's use of style in this excerpt?
The authorises words such as fantasy and whim to suggest Oliver's unconventional personality

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