Task 2: Spend 15 minutes on this task. You’re just finding language devices and show evidence and explain your point how this writing engages the reader.

I was standing in the middle of the night in a deep black canyon with three
companions, straining to hear the volcano Whisper its menace. Above us, a blizzard
had smothered the mountain and blotted out the violent red glow I had seen from a
plane three days before. We had tried to get up the 5,466ft volcano in our guide's
super-jeep but were defeated by the weather. We were aware of the occasional
muffled explosion and the heavy, sulphurous stench of the beast
I asked our guide what he would do if the mountain exploded like it had in the winter
of 1821. He rubbed his chin and concluded that we would not make it. The only
chance would be to leave the jeep to escape the flash flood of rocks, new lava, ice,
mud and water. But then we would have the volcanic ash to deal with, to say nothing
of the lightning that usually accompanies a major eruption.