Frustration is the answer. An exasperated person could also be described as a frustrated person. And they both mean the same thing or synonyms
For the first one is the variant D because ' <span> the largest U.S. state ' it's a developed apposition which mostly are isolated through commas.
For the second one the correct answer it's variant C because '</span><span>a pack of baseball cards' it's also a developed apposition and because the sentence ends in that way we use a dot instead of comma.</span>
Either, Meroe became very involved in nation trade, or, traders from other lands traveled the Nile to exhchange goods.
Stocking Characters I think I have had this question before.
The figurative language would be personification
the meaning is talking about not loosing its possession or its value