The verb is is because it "is" the plant.
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Answer: death: well, she’s talking about death metaphorically as if it’s a person. It’s capitalized bc Death is a personification of death represented as a human-like concept.
Best: the capitalized Best is similar to the death. But it’s her intent to tie the concept of the superlative metaphorically to a person. However, the difference is, it’s an actual person not a personification of a concept
Explanation:
The stories like “A Sound of Thunder and Nethergrave” will make you understand thT are wonderful pieces of science fiction. Both stories take you on a journey. One story takes you through the past and the other takes you through a virtual world. Of the both stories I think that “A Sound of Thunder”was a better story because it had a clearer story line then the other.