I'm stuggling on this question and i reallly don't know if my answer is right but i thinks it's i'm soexcerpt from an awful tempest mashed the air emily dickinson an awful tempest mashed the air, the clouds were gaunt and few; a black, as of a spectre's cloak, hid heaven and earth view. the creatures chuckled on the roofs ^5 and whistled in the air, and shook their fists and gnashed their teeth, and swung their frenzied hair. in the second stanza of the poem, how does the poet convey the seriouness of the storm? a) she uses personification to emphasize the impact of the storm. b) she uses paradoxes to show how powerful and majestic the storm is. c) she uses informal language to show that the storm was not very serious d) she uses metaphors to show the changes that are coming in the third stanza. my answer it's a but i also think it's b. me