Based on this opening paragraph which of the following outcomes is most likely

Without having the paragraph, I can only help you to find the answer.  As you read the paragraph, you need to find the main idea.  What is the paragraph mostly about?  Thinking about that, what are the possible outcomes from this main idea?  For example, if you have a story about a tornado hitting a small town, you could say that one of the outcomes would be everyone coming together to help one another put the town back together.

the rhetorical technique most used in this excerpt is parallelism. parallelism is a technique which author used in sentence as substitute of repeated synthetical similarities. it is the effect of rhetorical technique.

explanation:

dickinson punctuation and lines in her poems to establish a rhythm. each reader will naturally find themselves reading the poem in the same way. she uses the repeating question marks and exclamation points to convey the passion in her words. shelley uses punctuation to paint a picture in the reader's mind. for example, the ellipses after "stand in the dessert" evoke a silence, as it would feel in a deserted, old place.