"I felt I was making some progress in mastering the English language even if my collection of rejection slips
seemed to shout otherwise." (Paragraph 5)
How does the personification in this sentence most
affect the passage?
O 1. It contrasts the author's sense of optimism with
the overwhelmingly negative responses to his
writing.
O 2. It emphasizes the author's sense of
embarrassment when he is confronted by the
railway express man.
03. It reveals the author's struggle to write in a third
language, which he attempts to overcome
through study.
04. It demonstrates the author's imaginative writing
style, which he finally starts to use in "The
Wedding Shoes."