It’s saying the sea “licked greedy lips” the Sea doesn’t have lips so it’s a type of personification because it’s giving a non living thing humanistic characters.
The main idea is the first sentence (1). The rest of the sentences support the main idea that cockroaches have some amazing characteristics.
d. Latin implicare
Employ would be in the modern dictionary, which is why I chose d.
Answer:
Because he creates conflict in the story.
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