D.plate blunder because how earthquakes form is the plates of the earth push then they come apart
<span>Underlined verb cheer
(cheered) is intransitive verb. Transitive verbs require complement in form of
direct object (for example: he reads a book; he plays soccer), but intransitive
verbs, such as verbs cheer, walk and run, don’t require complement in form of direct object. </span>
I''m thinking either Metaphor, but I'm not quite sure.. sorry if this didn't help much.