Question

Read the excerpt below from the poem “There’s a certain Slant of light” by Emily Dickinson and answer the question that follows.

When it comes, the landscape listens,
Shadows hold their breath.

Source: Dickinson, Emily. “There’s a certain Slant of light.” The Poems of Emily Dickinson. Ed. R. W. Franklin. Harvard: Harvard University Press, 1999. Poetry Foundation. Web. 9 June. 2011.



Which technique does this excerpt use?


allusion

personification

simile

hyperbole

Answer 1

personification because a landscape cant listen its technically grass! so for sure PERSONIFICATION!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Answer 2

This is definitely personification because it describes how the landscape listens which landscapes can't do and also how shadows hold their breath.
Hope this helps