The passage above is an excerpt from this. If the underlined word, which is "crisis", be substituted with the word "event" instead, this would create a tone of less intense. Answer is opt
The correct answer should be Edith Wharton.
Ellen Glasgow, Ella Cather, and Mary J. Holmes dealt with other topics such as world war 1, slavery, civil war, life in the south, and other things while Edith Wharton wrote about social lives.
I would say the answer is D because and analogy is a comparison between two things
by putting the sentence in your own words but the same subject
also if its a website then you can copy the link from the cite and paste it in your response