Which sentence in this excerpt from The Mother's Recompense by Edith Wharton uses personification?
1)With impatient fingers she began all over again.
2)The maid's voice, seeming to come from a long way off, respectfully reminded her that the chocolate would be getting cold.
3) She wanted to settle that question of ages.
4)As Aline approached with the glass there was a knock at the door.
Answer: 1) With impatient fingers she began all over again.
Explanation: personification is a figure of speech that consists in giving human characteristics to non human objects (or animals). From the given options, the sentence from "Mother's Recompense" by Edith Wharton that represents an example of personification, is the corresponding to option 1, because it is giving the fingers (non human objects) the ability of being impatient (which is a human characteristic).
