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

the answer is

b. Personification              

devin will have to drain the rain out from his garage.

when making an inference, the reader should be sure to support the inference with

evidence

a is an educated guess about what will happen.

c. prediction

when new information proves that a reader's prediction is wrong, the reader should

make a new prediction based on the new information.