In medias res means to start a writing with events that happened in the middle of the story, then continuing the story from the beginning.
Pooling means kind of like searching.
The literary device used here is C, 'personification'. That literary device is used when you are trying to make an inanimate object come to life, such as here - 'evil forest was alive'.
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I think A, B, C (first 3). The last 2 dont seem particularly helpful to the diversity problem in my opinion
judgment upon human actions.
