Answer:
By creating high-paying jobs and providing the raw materials essential to every sector of our economy, minerals mining helps stimulate economic growth. The U.S. minerals mining industry supports more than 1.1 million jobs.
Romeo want to break Benvolio's shin because he wanted him to forget about his love.
Explanation:
Romeo is a lovelorn soul in the play and he has seen himself enamoured by a woman that he must have.
Benvolio as his friend tries, and fails miserably to be the voice of reason to him in that he tells him to be realistic and not fall for love that is unattainable and undesirable.
However, Romeo understands the demeaning tone in the voice of Benvolio and thus wants to break his shin for the insolence that Romeo will not be able to fulfill his love and will fail.
Answer:
Delicate irony and pointed epigram take the place of broad humor.
This is hyperbole: the speaker unlikely wants to literately die from this embarrassment: It's an exaggeration. Hyperbole is an exaggeration used to strengthen one's statement.
You didn't include the choices. But the conflict in fiction provides the basis for the story. It's man against nature, or man finding his place in the world or some such. Without conflict, fiction is nothing but a list of things characters are doing. Nobody wants to read that. No one even wants to write that.