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Skills Lesson: Structure

Question 17 • ARC English 10 Semester 2 CR/Summer

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?

Answer
A
allusion
B
personification
C
simile
D
hyperbole

Explanation

The excerpt gives human actions to parts of nature: the landscape “listens,” and the shadows “hold their breath.” This is personification, the technique of describing something nonhuman as if it were human. There is no comparison using “like” or “as,” so it is not a simile.

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