Personification
It is personification because the qualities of earth, or moreover, society, are given human-like abilities.
Answer:
a. while
Explanation:
My phone rang while I was in the meeting.
"third"
President Reagan signed the proclamation officially declaring that the 3rd Monday of the first month, January, be the MLK Jr. Day.
An example of a simile is the following:
"The tree was as thin as a hound dog."
As in the sentence above, a simile is a figure of speech which compares two different things, in order to make the description more intense or forceful. Another example could be:
"The man is as tall as a giraffe."
Answer:
I can't read it well, I think the first one is A
