The author describes the fire as "struggling to break free" , "greeting Sullivan", and now as having "a thousand yellow-orange fingers."

How does the use of personification affect the reader?

The most compelling and effective messages contain a variety of sentence patterns and avoid common sentence faults. you can create successful messages with sentence variety by understanding the four sentence types, controlling the length of your sentences, and avoiding fragments, run-ons, and comma splices. identify the correct pattern of a complex sentence. an independent clause and a dependent clause one independent clause with a subject and a predicate verb two independent clauses joined by a conjunction, a semicolon, or a conjunctive adverb