Haven't read that story, but going from the title I am going to say A.
<em>The major device used at the beginning of the poem is personification.
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I hope this helped you.
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Answer:
In chemistry, there are three definitions in common use of the word base, known as Arrhenius bases, Brønsted bases and Lewis bases. All definitions agree that bases are substances which react with acids as originally proposed by G.-F. Rouelle in the mid-18th century