Read the excerpt from the dark game.
which inference can a reader make based on the
information in the excerpt?
cable messages from europe to the united states traveled
through transatlantic cables that passed deep in the english
channel. the british saw the cables as an opportunity to
gain access to secret diplomatic messages sent from berlin
to its ambassador in washington, d. c. knowing they
couldn't tap the cables the way they could tap phone lines,
the british did the next best thing. the cable ship telconia
cut all five of the cables that carried communications through
the channel. to make sure that the sabotage had a lasting
effect, the telconia rolled up a few of the cable ends on her
drums and carried them to england. this act of sabotage
was great britain's first offensive act of the war.
the germans often sent important messages concerning
their war efforts to their ambassador in washington, d. c.
although the british cut the underwater cables, the
germans planned to lay new ones as quickly as possible.
without the underwater cables, the germans had no way
of communicating with their ambassadors.
the german ambassador in washington, d. c. was
unaware that the cables had been cut by the british

"the children's hour" by henry wadsworth longfellow between the dark and the daylight, when the night is beginning to lower, comes a pause in the day's occupations, that is known as the children's hour. i hear in the chamber above me the patter of little feet, the sound of a door that is opened, and voices soft and sweet. from my study i see in the lamplight, descending the broad hall stair, grave alice, and laughing allegra, and edith with golden hair. a whisper, and then a silence: yet i know by their merry eyes they are plotting and planning together to take me by surprise. a sudden rush from the stairway, a sudden raid from the hall! by three doors left unguarded they enter my castle wall! they climb up into my turret o'er the arms and back of my chair; if i try to escape, they surround me; they seem to be everywhere. they almost devour me with kisses, their arms about me entwine, till i think of the bishop of bingen in his mouse-tower on the rhine! do you think, o blue-eyed banditti, because you have scaled the wall, such an old mustache as i am is not a match for you all! i have you fast in my fortress, and will not let you depart, but put you down into the dungeon in the round-tower of my heart. and there will i keep you forever, yes, forever and a day, till the walls shall crumble to ruin, and moulder in dust away! which literary device does longfellow use most frequently in the poem? a. simile b. metaphor c. repetition d. personification