The author says that landscape "listens" and shadows "hold their breath", both of which are pretending that landscape and shadows hold human like properties, therefore the answer is personification.
Personification- when a thing or an animal acts like humans In this case landscape "listens", they don' t listen and then Shadows "holds" their breath, Shadows can't HOLD THEIR BREATH!!
Harrison and the ballerina are both forced to wear the most impediments because, ironically, both are more brilliant and athletic than anyone else. The correct answer is D. <span />