What is the effect of the personification in this excerpt from the passage? it's just you and me now, diving board. i've reached your brink, eddies swirling in the nebulous void beneath you, and all i can hear is a piercing ring. you're just staring at me, maybe through me. can i ask you something? do you like orange cream ice pops? it stress the idea that the anxious narrator views the diving board as an adversary. it emphasizes the difficulty of diving from a high platform. it seems to increase the probability that the narrator will perform an unsuccessful dive. it explain the challenges the narrator faces in learning to dive.

Read the excerpt from henry wadsworth longfellow’s translation of an excerpt from dante’s inferno and answer the question. but inasmuch as never from this depth did any one return, if i hear true, without the fear of infamy i answer . . “the love song of j. alfred prufrock” begins with an excerpt from dante’s inferno. which two statements express how this source material contributes to the mood of the poem? click here to read the poem. the inferno excerpt introduces a mood of horror that eliot elaborates throughout the poem. the inferno excerpt introduces a mood of enthusiasm that eliot argues against throughout the poem. the inferno excerpt introduces a mood of boldness that eliot continues throughout the poem. the inferno excerpt introduces a mood of shame that eliot explores throughout the poem. the inferno excerpt introduces a mood of enlightenment that eliot mocks throughout the poem. next question ask for