How did the Great Depression change the country?
Question 2 options:
It set off a chain reaction of companies closing, unemployment and poverty.
Answer: a metaphor.
Explanation: In personification, a usually unanimated object gains human qualities. In a metaphor, you are relating yourself or something else to something without using the words “like” or “as”. This is comparing yourself to a dream, even though you are a person, so it would be a metaphor.