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the passage shows that pardoners were officially authorized by the church</span>
Answer:
personification because we are giving the chant a human quality
Answers B and C are quite vague without context.
answer D isn't important since everyone was broke and unemployed so this affected little to no people
during this time period the great depression (reason why answer D is wrong) has affected everyone so unemployment was a huge issue so it has to be answer A