D. By referring to how farmers "died on" and are "dying on" the land, the author conveys sympathy
Chryses is a Trojan - Apollos priest. Chryses went to Agamemnon because his daughter Chryseis had been taken as plunder by Agamemnon in an earlier raid and he wanted to get her freedom by offering a ransom.
Ad hominem is an attack against the arguer instead of the argument itself in order to cast doubts about arguer's argument.
The answer in D because SENSory language appeals to the SENSes.