Question

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 1

The answer is certainly Personification

Answer 2

The author is using personification because the author is giving non living things characteristics living things would have, specifically actions. For example, the author says that "shadows hold their breath." I think we all know that shadows are not living things.