<span>He personifies animals and objects to create a more playful tone.
Instead of just having the characters of Pyramus and Thisbe, Shakespeare gives the inanimate objects like the wall and the moon, and animals like the lion actual lines. This creates humor, especially because the actors are so bad, and sets it apart from the original myth.</span>
This dragon was guarding the treasure, which was left by an ancient civilization. <span>Eventually the dragon found the treasure, and he has guarded it for three hundred years. He slept in peace until the slave stole the cup as a plea for mercy from his lord. Now the dragon realizes that something is missing, and he goes on a rampage to find the cup.</span>
The appositive phrase is not Maya Lin, like the comment above me stated, but it is B) Chinese-American.
An appositive phrase is usually separated from the rest of the sentence by commas, and it describes the subject, which here is Maya Lin.
