I would go with C because the possessive pronoun is before it
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You should be asking 2 things, how can I use it in my own writing and what is the meaning and effect of this technique
I think it is because personification is the attribution of a personal nature or human characteristics to something nonhuman, or the representation of an abstract quality in human form.
where is the passage? upload it in the comments or something
I believe you have a typo when it comes to the first option - it should be athletics, not athletic. The word athletic is an adjective, and the word athletics is a noun.
That being said, the correct answer is A. athletics. Even though this noun ends in -s, it is still singular. The rest of the options are all plural nouns.
