I guess you should say that you're understanding everything? because it should be how you personally feel in your language arts class
Personification is adding human characteristics to a non-human object. (D. "The landscape listens, shadows - hold their breath.") The landscape listening as if it has ears, and shadows holding their breath are things a living thing would do, so (D) is the best answer.
the answer is D because it has the either/or fallacy
Paul celebrated Peter's birthday, then two days later, Peter celebrated Paul's birthday. Because both Peter and Paul are males, we must use the possessive pronoun "his" when speaking of either, or in this case, both of them, which started the confusion represented in this example.
The answer is ababcc. Because it goes fade then two lines later shade making it ababcc