The effect the use of words with strong positive connotations have on this excerpt is that D.they emphasize the pleasures of riiding a bicycle.
In this excerpt there are no references to the number of people who ride bicycles (answer A) or to a historical development of them (answer B.) There are no references to health benefits either (answer C.)
The excerpt deals with <u>abstract feelings and sensations that result from the pleasure of riding a bicycle</u>, so the correct answer is D.
The purpose of personification in the above excerpt is to give human characteristic to death which is considered to be a non human. Writers usually use personification in their write ups in order to bring an inanimate objects to life so that their actions and natures will be better understood.
You can see the piece of text like this: a pizza, and then you can cut open the pizza and see what's in it. By cutting open the words, you can feel what meaning or message this paragraph is saying.
