"no, she must keep silence! what is it that suddenly forbids her and makes her dumb? has she been nine years growing and now, when the great world for the first time puts out a hand to her, must she thrust it aside for a bird's sake? " the phrase "when the great world for the first time puts out a hand to her" is an example of a. simile. b. personification. c. foreshadowing. d. metaphor.

Option B. The phrase "when the great world for the first time puts out a hand to her" is an example of personification.

Explanation:

Personification is a figure of speech in which an object or a non human things or organism is given human attributes. The phrase "when the great world for the first time puts out a hand to her" is a personification as it is giving the world, which is a planet, a human attribution of "holding a hand to someone" in an effort of helping them.

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themes and meanings

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there are two central themes in  the miracle worker: that the human spirit can triumph over even the most daunting of disabilities and that a dedicated teacher can transform the lives of those with whom he or she comes into contact. these inspirational themes have long been personified in the widely known true-life relationship between helen keller and annie sullivan, but  the miracle worker  also dramatizes collateral issues that extend beyond the particular case. underlying helen’s process of learning basic principles of what annie terms “obedience” (decorum, etiquette, and hygiene), there are more universal lessons of self-governance—the inculcation of self-restraint instead of willfulness, the development of self-discipline instead of self-indulgence. only when these lessons have been mastered can helen begin to acquire language—which, annie says, “is to the mind more than light is to the eye.”