The poetic techniques that are illustrated in the opening lines of this poem are personification and enjambment.
Personification is when inanimate objects have human qualities, such as <em>and my skin has betrayed me.
</em>Enjambment is when the though found in one line is transferred into the following one, such as in <em>still sucks his thumb/in secret.</em>
I am pretty sure that the correct inference of the given passage from "The Cask of Amontillado" is the option : The narrator will make sure Fortunato is comfortable in the vaults. I consider this option as a correct one because Fortunato was killed by <span>Montrasor in this story. Do hope it will help!</span>
I am not quite sure what you want because that is not a question. Therefore there cannot be an answer. But, if you were looking for an opinion on that sentence I can give you that. First of all, caressed may not be the right word to use. You could go into more detail though.
Such as:
The sun looked down upon the plant, it reached out and lifted it up from the rain.
It could be along those lines, I hope that helps I really didn't know what you wanted to hear.
B. engineer would most likely use it