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In her story about the fountain pen, Anne uses another example of figurative language -- personification. In personification, human characteristics are given to something nonhuman. Identify the example of personification and explain why Anne uses it

My fountain pen was always one of my most prized possessions; I valued it highly, especially because it had a thick nib, and I can only write neatly with thick nibs. It has led a long and interesting fountain-pen life, which I will summarize below. When I was nine, my fountain pen (packed in cotton) arrived as a ā€œsample of no commercial valueā€ all the way from Aachen, where my grandmother (the kindly donor) used to live. I lay in bed with the flu, while the February winds howled around the apartment house. This splendid fountain pen came in a red leather case, and I showed it to my girlfriends the first chance I got. Me, Anne Frank, the proud owner of a
fountain pen.
When I was ten, I was allowed to take the pen to school, and to my surprise, the teacher even let me write with it.
When I was eleven, however, my treasure had to be tucked away again, because my sixth-grade teacher allowed us to use only school pens and inkpots. When I was twelve, I started at the Jewish Lyceum and my fountain pen was given a new case in honor of the occasion. Not only did it have room for a pencil, it also had a zipper, which was much more impressive. When I was thirteen, the fountain pen went with me to the Annex, and together weā€™ve raced through countless diaries and compositions. Iā€™d turned fourteen and my fountain pen was enjoying the last year of its life with me when ā€¦It was just after five on Friday afternoon. I came out of my room and was about to sit down at the table to write when I was roughly pushed to one side to make room for Margot and Father, who wanted to practice their Latin. The fountain pen remained unused on the table, while its owner, sighing, was forced to make do with a very tiny corner of the table, where she began rubbing beans. Thatā€™s how we remove mold from the beans and restore them to their original state. At a quarter to six I swept the floor, dumped the dirt into a newspaper, along with the rotten beans, and tossed it into the stove. A giant flame shot up, and I thought it was wonderful that the stove, which had been gasping its last breath, had made such a miraculous recovery.
All was quiet again. The Latin students had left, and I sat down at the table to pick up where Iā€™d left off. But no matter where I looked, my fountain pen was nowhere in sight. I took another look. Margot looked, Mother looked, Father looked, Dussel looked. But it had vanished. ā€œMaybe it fell into the stove, along with the beans!ā€ Margot suggested.
ā€œNo, it couldnā€™t have!ā€ I replied.
But that evening, when my fountain pen still hadnā€™t turned up, we all assumed it had been burned, especially because celluloid is highly inflammable. Our darkest fears were confirmed the next day when Father went to empty the stove and discovered the clip, used to fasten it to a pocket, among the ashes. Not a trace of the gold nib was left. ā€œIt must have melted into stone,ā€ Father conjectured

Iā€™m left with one consolation, small though it may be: my fountain pen was cremated, just as I would like to be someday!

Yours, Anne

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