I don't know what the original sentences looked like, but I assume the answer is :
C) That ancient land was located in the Middle East, a hot and sunny part of the world.
The correct answer is A. an opinion
A metaphor is a figure of speech that deals with figurative comparison to something similar, while similes compare things using words like "like" and "such as". Personification is when an inanimate object is given human behavior or personality.
The subordinate clause is : " which had been dumped into the city water system "
Active voice is when the subject of the sentence is actually doing the action of the main verb. In this sentence maize is the subject and she is the one giving the speech.
Well, denotative meaning refers to the literal meaning of a word. So, I guess the correct answer would be <span><u>long cracks in the surface of the earth</u>, because that is the definition of the word fault lines. The other options are too metaphorical, and would thus be considered to be a connotative, rather than denotative meaning.</span>