Answer: D) Personification.
Explanation: Personification is a figure of speech that consists in giving human characteristics to nonhuman objects. In the given excerpt from the poem "The First Snowfall" by James Russell Lowell we can see an example of the use of personification, in the phrase "every pine and fir and hemlock wore ermine.." it is giving the pine, fir and hemlock (nonhuman objects) a human characteristic (they are wearing ermine).
D. simple and conversational
My hat is on the table.
The dog ran over there.
I'll call you if I walk home.
No, if it will seem like the government is making us sacrifice around right to bare arms