Here is an excerpt from a story that tamara submitted for a literary competition. (1) lucy’s alarm clock shattered her peaceful dream like a jackhammer. (2) her eyes snapped open, and then she grinned happily. (3) thunder rumbled like a freight train in the distance. (4) rain rapped on her window, inviting her out to play. (5) lucy threw on her clothes and raced outside to savor the joyful moment. (6) droplets of water merrily danced across the pavement as lucy leapt from puddle to puddle. (7) a soft blanket of rain fell on the parched ground, filling the dry cracks that marred the landscape. which sentences from the excerpt are examples of personification? a. sentence (1) and sentence (7) b. sentence (3) and sentence (4) c. sentence (2) and sentence (5) d. sentence (4) and sentence (6)

But this, but you – small, pitiful and twiggy – you put me down with wine, you blinded me. come back, odysseus, and i'll treat you well, praying the god of earthquake to befriend you – his son i am, for he by his avowal fathered me, and, if he will, he may heal me of this black wound – he and no other of all the happy gods or mortal men.' few words i shouted in reply to him: 'if i could take your life i would and take your time away, and hurl you down to hell! the god of earthquake could not heal you there! ' at this he stretched his hands out in his darkness toward the sky of stars, and prayed poseidon: 'o hear me, lord, blue girdler of the islands, if i am thine indeed, and thou art father: grant that odysseus, raider of cities, never see his home -the odyssey, homer what motivates cyclops to ask poseidon to interfere with odysseus's journey home?