It's hot outside today.
It's is the contrasted form of it is and its is the possessive form *as it is without an apostrophe*.
For example:
The tree has lost all its leaves.
It's my birthday today.
The answer is d, Mrs Reed walks in on Jane reacting to abuse from Master Reed but gets into trouble due to it being unladylike, especially in comparison to the context of the novel
Enjambment - the sentences do not finish with the end of the line.
Simile - "like a slackened drum"
Maybe even hyperbole, since it is an exaggeration.
Answer:
As the stars move across the sky each night people of the world have looked up and wondered about their place in the universe. Throughout history civilizations have developed unique systems for ordering and understanding the heavens. Babylonian and Egyptian astronomers developed systems that became the basis for Greek astronomy, while societies in the Americas, China and India developed their own.
