QUESTION 5.2. .1 [EXTRACT I.] When I realised that she was coming regularly to the shop while I was on duty; I in turn developed my own style of defence. With meticulous attention to detail! dusted the counter; swept the floor; polished the glass case; weighed out bags of sugar, rice and flour; while she conversed out loud with herself in her light-hearted, superbly acted way. I ignored her for varying moments of time until I reached for the window blinds, the light switch and the keys. At this stage I would lock up the shop. But one day. as if in a trance, I reached for a fistful of sweets, placed it in a paper bag and shoved it into her arms as they lay folded across the counter. Khadija stopped speaking. Her face softened. Quietly she closed her hands around the bag of sweets and left the shop. 5 10 It was several weeks before I could bring myself to tell the family. They were astonished, my brother Abdul especially. 'A bag of sweets?' they asked incredulously. 'Cheap sweets! I replied in an off-hand way, my voice sounding flat, final, while I was cruelly delighting in the effect I was having on the others. They" 15 questioned me, registering disbelief. 'Yet she comes back?' 'Every Friday!" I said emphatically. They did not know how to interpret this turn of events and I saw the beginning of a sense of wrong among some of them.
1.1refer to line8-10 identify the figure of speech is effective in this extract.explain why it is effective
