Personification, America is an object, not a person, yet it is singing, which is a person like quality.
A. this philosophy that states that thought and spiritual things are more realistic than any ordinary human experience
Typically at the beginning of the dictionary (you may want to confirm this)
The correct answer should be Influence
Reject and question are self-explanatory, while defer would be to put off, which is why influencing is the only thing that remains.
