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Is this personification? "i have played the fox,now i must play the cat of the fable"

Agood persuasive essay topic cannot be a. a fact b. debatable c. something somebody else has already written about

What can be inferred from the following sentence in the passage? then he asked me my name. scarcely had i uttered it when he made a gesture of astonishment. a) the sentence implies that the attendant knows the colonel. b) the sentence implies that the colonel is giving up on life. c) the sentence implies that the attendant is going to get fired. d) the sentence implies that the colonel recognizes the attendant's name.