D. refuse should be refused.
When I think of the word breakdown in communication, it is a sense of making the concept you are talking about simpler. You may need to use this tactic when talking to smaller children.
sentence: Hey Mrs. Brown, could you breakdown what you just said, I don't understand.
It would say that this sentence presents two examples of personification.
By personification, we understand that "<span>the attribution of a personal nature or human characteristics to something non-human, or the representation of an abstract quality in human form"
In this quote Time is capitalized that is why it can be considered a personification of time, it is taken as a subject. And on the other hand, the bridge is related to the verb "sweep" which is applied to people.</span>
B, Frank walked in the house and set down his bag of books.
