The stitiching on Billy's favorite bear, Teddy, came undone and some of the stuffing spilled out. Billy sobbed while his dad sewed up the bear because he feared Teddy was in pain. Billy's belief that Teddy can feel pain and be hurt is known as:

Anthropomorphism: the attribution of human characteristics or behavior (such as pain) to a god, animal, or object (like a teddy bear).

OR

Autusm: Feeling sympathy for inanimate objects.

If you're looking for a literary answer, you're best guess is anthropomorphism.

If you're looking for an answer relating to psychological and social behavioral research, you're best guess is autusm.

Explanation:

You're next best guess, if both of these don't work, is empathy.

Hope this helps! :)

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:

the answer is actually c   i just got done with the test.