"His story symbolizes both his ambiguous social status during the play, and the possibility of his social mobility"
Think about it. Gwendolyn doesn't love him because of this, he's quite open about this story, so that's not demonstrating anything. And this is not played up for sympathy. This leaves us with one option.
Answer: E) Personification.
Explanation: personification is a figure of speech that consists in giving human characteristics to non human objects (or animals). In the given sentence we can see an example of personification because it is giving the night-wind (non human object) the ability to breathe (human characteristic). So from the given options, the one that expresses the figure of speech that is in the sentence, is the corresponding to option E: personification.
Answer:
Present
Explanation: Because dey be describing sumthing in the present