Answer:
New Mexico is being personified and it's human action is holding the canvas
Explanation: New Mexico is the main subject of this sentence, and although dry and vast describes New Mexico, it's ability/action to hold a canvas is what makes it personified.
#4 Phasmatodea or walking stick
Answer:
Form
Explanation:
It isn't theme. Theme is the message of a passage or text. (Not to be confused with main idea, which is the the overall point the passage or text was written. ) It isn't figurative language, because that is a whole <em>type </em>of writing structure. (For example, instead of saying, "She felt sick and dizzy," you could use figurative language and say, "Her legs felt like cooked spaghetti noodles and her stomach started doing somersaults." Heck, it's a little crazy, but it makes the writing better. Lastly, it isn't plot, since plot is pretty much what <em>happens</em> in the story. I would call it conflict, but it isn't always problems. Maybe a girl finds her long-lost father. That would be part of the plot but not conflict. (Well, I guess it <em>could</em> cause some conflict if you think about it.
So, long story short, the answer is form.
Answer:
War and Peace broadly focuses on Napoleon's invasion of Russia in 1812 and follows three of the most well-known characters in literature: Pierre Bezukhov, the illegitimate son of a count who is fighting for his inheritance and yearning for spiritual fulfillment; Prince Andrei Bolkonsky, who leaves his family behind