Answer: Metaphor if a person is speaking and comparing him/herself to fire-- perhaps an emotional state, or expressing an intention to light things up.
Personification if the fire is speaking. It may be a poetic, ceremonial speech.
"I am fire. I represent the passion and fervor of these candidates...."
Explanation:
Context helps to determine the interpretation of any figurative language.
The style that the sisters in 'I want to be miss America' wish to follow is AMERICAN STYLE.
The sisters are from Dominican Republic who moved to America and they want to look more American. They researched on magazines, studied their classmates, and then they watched the Miss America pageant on their TV.
It’d be b to expose ridiculousness and pretentiousness of Victorian culture