Vivid imagery
The answer choices about facts and statistics and quotations should immediately be eliminated. There are no statistics or quotations anywhere in the excerpt. The speaker does not use neutral language when he says words like quaint, incendiary, and uninflected. All of these carry an opinion. Vivid imagery is correct because of the way he talks about the different groups and their locations.
Does it take you by interest and are you willing to put a little more information for that topic.
The definition of the antecedent of a sentence is that if a word refers to a previous noun or pronoun in the sentence, that pronoun or noun is its antecedent. Let's eliminate some options. Looked is a verb so it cannot be. All around the room is a general space qualifier and thus this is irrelevant too (it does not refer to Samuel's room for example). Now we find the relevant part, "his shoes". The pronoun is his. Hence, we have that the antecedent is Samuel.
Answer:
1. I cannot remember well, but I am sure I <em>have been</em> here for more than ten years.
The past participle of be is been.
2. Sitara was only three months old when her parents <em>relocated</em> to New York.
The past participle of relocate is relocated.
3. By the time they decided to return to India, she <em>became</em> old enough to make her own decisions.
The past tense of become is became.
