Answer: D) Personification.
Explanation: Personification is a figure of speech that consists in giving human characteristics to nonhuman objects. In the given excerpt from the poem "The First Snowfall" by James Russell Lowell we can see an example of the use of personification, in the phrase "every pine and fir and hemlock wore ermine.." it is giving the pine, fir and hemlock (nonhuman objects) a human characteristic (they are wearing ermine).
<span>C. The people are all huddled there in their running shorts, looking pretty miserable, and one after another the roofs keep falling in.
Pathos is meant to invoke pity in the audience. We see here that the author clearly know what they are doing. He/She uses words such as "huddled" and "miserable" to invoke pity and sympathy in the audience.
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B and C (second and third option)
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The alliteration in the first sounds of the words "step" and "sheer", and the consonance of the sound in "hairsbreadth" and "coincidence." The two devices work together to unify the idea that the tiniest of things make all the difference in the way things work out.
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I think he lists his personal involvement in climate change work.
