The strongest evidence you can provide to argue your claim is facts. 
        
                    
             
        
        
        
Baldwin not only describes how white people hate black people, but also shows why black people carry the same act. At one point in his book, he writes: “I imagine that one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, that they will be forced to deal with pain.” It is the representation of a post-hate state: the hate is gone, but the process continues - the person suffers the consequences of his acts after realizing what he has done. The correct answer is B.
 
        
                    
             
        
        
        
Answer:
personification 
Explanation:
personification: the attribution of a personal nature or human characteristics to something nonhuman, or the representation of an abstract quality in human form.
i might be wrong because it could also be a metaphor because hope is being compared to being a thing with feathers by using "is" and not "like or as" like a simile. Hope this helps 
 
        
             
        
        
        
The total area of the piece of wood is 28 feet