<span>B. the noun or pronoun to which a pronoun refers.</span>
The noun to which a pronoun refers is called the antecedent of the pronoun. A pronoun is used to substitute a noun. In order for it to substitute, it must have a clear antecedent. Personal pronouns are used to substitute nouns with ownership. There are three persons point of view.1st person is when the subject is the one who is speaking (e.g. I, me, my, mine, we, us, our, ours). 2nd person is when the subject is the one being spoken to (you, your, yours). 3rd person is when the subject is the one spoken about (he, him, his, she, her, hers, it, its, they, their, theirs).
Answer: Because the love of his life and newlywed wife Eurydice had died.
Explanation: After Orpheus and Eurydice got married she was pursued by Aristaeus who eas a minor god of the arts. While evading him she stepped on a snake and died. This prompted Orpheus to go down to the Underworld to try and bring her back to life.
In the second sentence, the image used by the author is a metaphor which is a figure of speech that describes an action in a way that isn't literally true, but helps him to explain the idea of how the woman takes out her feeling of love, probably hidden for a lot of time.