Answer:
Personification
Explanation:
The gun “bucking” is personification, as it does not have the same first letter as other words in the phrase (alliteration) and it does not use like or as (simile), nor is it a figure of speech. The fire “licking” from the end of the gun is also personification.
Space out your time, and read it in intervals. Read diligently and don’t get off-track.
Answer:
It contains an analogy and technical language but no allusion
Explanation:
The statements described this are
- Then he rode the bike for a minute, analyzing the change in the bike's performance
- he stared for ten minutes before tightening the rear sprockets.
I did a 3 second google search for "tim o'brien" and the first thing that came up was the novel he wrote about the vietnam war called "The Things They Carried" written in 1990.