Early on in the story the narrator mentions the sound of wind through the wires strung overhead: "the wind in the wires took up the story . ."taking the plot's rising action at this point into account, which of the following literary devices is the author most likely using?
a. creative license
b. irony
c. extended metaphor
d. personification

option D.

Explanation:

The correct answer is option D.

The irony is the figure of speech which represents the contradiction between what is stated and what actually the scenario is.

the statement by the poet does not have any contradictory statements.

The extended metaphor is a part of speech which is used when there is a comparison between two unlike things in the paragraph.

in the given statement of the poem, there is no comparison.

Personification is the part of speech where human quality are given to non-living things.

in the give statement wind in the wire took up the story can be taken as the human quality.

so, the statement part of speech is personification.

scattering of light by tiny particles in air to produce the colors we see on sky, is dependent on the following factors:

(i) wavelength of light

(ii) size of the scattering particle  

(iii) distance traveled by light through the atmosphere.

according to rayleigh's law of scattering, the amount of scattering is inversely proportional to the fourth power of its wavelength. shorter the wavelength, greater is its scattering. hence violet/blue light is scattered more than red.

sun's light is a composite light ( visible light) with wavelengths in the range 400 nm (violet) to 700 nm (red). as sunlight passes through our atmosphere, the molecules of air scatter light according to their wavelengths. during sunrise and sunset, the sun's position is below the horizon. hence light from the sun travels a greater distance in the atmosphere when compared to its position a noon.

as sunlight enters the earth's atmosphere, blue light is scattered away and at the end of its journey in the sky, only red and orange wavelengths remain in the beam.

hence at sunrise and sunset, the sky appears reddish orange.