You didn't italize or mark the phrase, but I see one good candidate:
"The circus animal trainer" is in a way another name given to Mervin, a kind of "renaming" him: this is called an appositive phrase, so if this was the phrase appositive phrase is the answer! (also, I don't see the other phrases here).
The two senteces that most clearly describe historical elements are:
"Then, amid a murmur of laughter and jeers from the Roman benches immediately before him, he began to sing."
"It was all simple and childlike, but it went to the hearts of the Olympians, for it spoke of the land which they knew and loved."
Answer:
when Sal walks into traffic and is almost hit by a truck
Explanation:
because it is
