Answer: C) personification.
Explanation: personification is a figure of speech that consists in giving human characteristics to non human objects (or animals). In the given excerpt from "Ode to Autumn" by John Keats, we can see an example of the use of personification in the phrase "Or by a cider-press, with patient look" because it is giving the cider-press (a non human object) the ability of having a patient look (human characteristic).