Answer:
New Mexico is being personified and it's human action is holding the canvas
Explanation: New Mexico is the main subject of this sentence, and although dry and vast describes New Mexico, it's ability/action to hold a canvas is what makes it personified.
Explicit means "stated clearly"
Which two sentences in this excerpt from John F. Kennedy's inaugural address demonstrate the use of antithesis as a rhetorical device?
We observe today not a victory of party but a celebration of freedom—symbolizing an end as well as a beginning–signifying renewal as well as change. For I have sworn before you and Almighty God the same solemn oath our forbears prescribed nearly a century and three-quarters ago.
