I think it would be the first one, "The gentle and cautious fireman rescued the kitten."
Use of third person omniscient narrator allows the author to give the reader the private and intimate details about Tom's life and character.
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In "The devil and Tom Walker", Washington Irving makes use of third person narrative. With the use of this, he makes the readers know about the private and intimate details about the life of Tom and his character.
For example he describes the unhappy marriage : her voice was often heard in wordy warfare with her husband; and his face showed that their conflicts were not simply confined to words. If it was told in the first person point of view, it would have told intimate but inaccurate details about Tom which would have been biased.
Oral history is a variant of this answer
The given line "How to Eat a Poem" is an example of a hyperbole. Hyperbole is a figure of speech that uses exaggeration or overstatement for emphasis, but is not meant to be taken literally. Here, it is exaggerated that a poem can be eaten. But if you take it literally, poems should not be eaten. It is not a metaphor nor simile because no comparison is made. Neither personification because it human characteristics are not attributed to it.
