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Read the poem “The Sky is Low, the Clouds are Mean” below and the question that follows.

The sky is low, the clouds are mean,
A travelling flake of snow
Across a barn or through a rut
Debates if it will go.

A narrow wind complains all day
How some one treated him;
Nature, like us, is sometimes caught
Without her diadem.

What literary technique did poet Emily Dickinson use in this poem?

personification
nuance
antithesis
alliteration

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Answer:

Personification

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Answer:

I think the answer would be either a or d.

Step-by-step explanation:

I am pretty sure it is D, because alliteration means, the occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words.

However the word personification means, the attribution of a personal nature or human characteristics to something nonhuman, or the representation of an abstract quality in human form.

so i think it is d...

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