*PLEASE ANSWER* Read this sentence from Stephen Crane's The Red Badge of Courage.

With the courageous words of the artillery and the spiteful sentences of the musketry mingled red cheers.

What literary technique does Crane use here, and to what effect?

a.) He uses symbolism to show how devastating artillery and muskets were during the war.

b.) He uses satire to ridicule the soldiers' use of weapons, as well as their shouts of victory.

c.) He uses personification to make the weapons of war appear both brave and vengeful.

c

Explanation:

Crane employs similes and personification to draw pictures of soldiers and their weapons. For example, a soldier's "eyeballs were about to crack like hot stones"; "The man at the youth's elbow was babbling something soft and tender like the monologue of a babe"; "The guns squatted in a row like savage chiefs." Crane uses both personification and simile in the line, "The cannon with their noses poked slantingly at the ground grunted and grumbled like stout men, brave but with objections to hurry." This line makes the weapons appear to be living creatures. The use of personification in the line, "The sore joints of the regiment creaked as it painfully floundered into position," turns the regiment into one large, tired soldier. Crane's similes describe groups and individuals in these examples: the rebel forces were "running like pursued imps" and Henry, at first, "ran like a rabbit" and, later, "like a blind man."

I believe the answer is verb.

Explanation:

Opening is an action so it is a verb. hope this helps.