You then are going to write your first drafts, so that way you know once you have it all written up, if there are any things you need to fix or want to change.
The author is using a type of figurative language called personification. Personification is when you give human characteristics or traits to something that is non human. When the author writes, "<span>the sea licked greedy lips in the shadows." the author is giving the sea human characteristics. The sea does not actually have lips.</span>
The correct answer is D. Green. This is because it is the only word that is the part of a predicate. The other words are all part of the subject noun phrase "the skin on a granny smith apple". "Is" is the predicate in combination with "green"