The best answer is "B", as direct characterization is characteristics revealed obviously, like "Her Dark Red Hair". 
        
                    
             
        
        
        
Personification is the correct answer. Cookies cannot take on human characteristics (key word: beckoned)  
        
             
        
        
        
The action verb is (A. taste.
        
                    
             
        
        
        
<span>"Maybe not. Maybe, just maybe, there's something they've missed that's important. With patience and calm, even a burro can climb a palm." 
"...even a burro can climb a palm" - This last was one of her many Dominican sayings she had imported into her scrambled English.
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what passages? u need more info