Answer:
C) One passage provides objective economic data about the river while the others tell the story of two boys adventuring on its waters.
Explanation:
I believe the answer is C because the first passage provides factual information about the Mississippi River while the other simply uses the river as the story's setting.
Personification
It is personification because the qualities of earth, or moreover, society, are given human-like abilities.
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