after the question is that the answer or yours?
It is the antagonist because they are usually looked as an enemy or an opponent and clearly the enemy isn’t a hero, or narrator which leaves us with b and c and b means the same as the hero leaving us with C the antagonist
The adverb is probably B. Leave
Extinction is a natural process but with the expansion of the human race it is occurring at a excelling rate.
It does not adress the content of what is said but the way it's presented. Therefore also applies to rhetoric since whenever you say anything to promote anything you use rhetoric so that the listener would become interested in whatever it is you are trying to promote