Scientist believe farmers will grow plants with black leaves. The black leave will be able to change sunlight into energy. Stain believes that these black leaves will help reduce poverty in rural parts of the world. He also believes that termites will eat rusty metal and trees will produce liquid fuel.
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A flashback tells something from the past so the answer would have to be (A) this is because of the use of the word recall. In every other option the verb is present or future tense instead of past tense.
I'd say that the most prominent figurative language element in this excerpt is D. personification, because it talks about trees that have almost human qualities of wearing clothes, etc.
Simile is when you compare two or more things using words such as <em>like </em>or <em>as.
</em>Synecdoche is when you represent a part as a whole or vice versa.
<em />Hyperbole is exaggeration.