Answer:
(a) Yah! Just lemme get over it alone.
Answer:
Poet is using personification
Explanation:
<em>Frozen branches—heavy with ice arms— Couldn't perform their dance</em>
Trees and brances can't dance, but the poet is giving them human possibilities.
Personification is a way of giving human feelings to objects, plants, animals, and abstract concepts. By reviving things, phenomena, in general, something inanimate, they create images that have a strong effect on the reader.
There were no roads or automobiles in the area.
It's clear through the passage that there are no paved roads or cars to get the miners from place to place. They had to carry all of their gear and supplies through dangerous trails by foot, only being able to travel a certain amount each day.
“Constance Culmington, he reflected to himself, was exactly the sort of woman who would buy an island and surround herself with mystery! Nodding his head in gentle approval of his logic, Mr. Justice Wargrave allowed his head to nod... He slept..." Chapter 1, pg. 3
