Read this excerpt from Susan Butcher and the Iditarod Trail
Which conclusion can be formed based on the
information in the excerpt?
On January 29, Edgar Nollner waited in a dark cabin at
Whiskey Creek, close to the halfway point. Suddenly he
sat up. Bells! Was he hearing things? He ran to the
window and found that it was Bill McCarty, who had tied
sleigh bells to his dogs, coming in from the Ruby relay
cabin. Mushers, either by choice or in some towns by
law, often tied bells on their lead dogs to warn people
they were coming up behind them. Edgar had not
expected to hear Bill's bells for several days, but he
wasted no time. He took the serum and started north
along the frozen Yukon River.
O. Near the halfway point, the movement of the serum
by dog teams was going worse than expected.
Near the halfway point, the plan to deliver serum by
dog teams was considered a mistake.
O Near the halfway point, the mushers tied bells on the
lead dogs to warn of their arrival.
O Near the halfway point, the movement of the serum
by dog teams was going better than expected.

"the children's hour" by henry wadsworth longfellow between the dark and the daylight, when the night is beginning to lower, comes a pause in the day's occupations, that is known as the children's hour. i hear in the chamber above me the patter of little feet, the sound of a door that is opened, and voices soft and sweet. from my study i see in the lamplight, descending the broad hall stair, grave alice, and laughing allegra, and edith with golden hair. a whisper, and then a silence: yet i know by their merry eyes they are plotting and planning together to take me by surprise. a sudden rush from the stairway, a sudden raid from the hall! by three doors left unguarded they enter my castle wall! they climb up into my turret o'er the arms and back of my chair; if i try to escape, they surround me; they seem to be everywhere. they almost devour me with kisses, their arms about me entwine, till i think of the bishop of bingen in his mouse-tower on the rhine! do you think, o blue-eyed banditti, because you have scaled the wall, such an old mustache as i am is not a match for you all! i have you fast in my fortress, and will not let you depart, but put you down into the dungeon in the round-tower of my heart. and there will i keep you forever, yes, forever and a day, till the walls shall crumble to ruin, and moulder in dust away! which literary device does longfellow use most frequently in the poem? a. simile b. metaphor c. repetition d. personification