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