Its D because the word empathize is an action shes taking with the children. Closer is a noun, glacial is an adjective, and contentment is a noun. Only leaves empathize because its an act of <span>understanding or, sharing the feelings for another. :) Your welcome! Hope you pass!</span>
The answer would be 'B' because personification is about an emotion from an figurative language. That's from my point of view, hope I had helped :)
The phrase in the excerpt from a 1964 interview with Malcolm X indicates that he is explicitly stating an opinion is this "<span>{I don't think that it} serves any purpose for the {leaders of our people} to waste their time fighting each other needlessly."</span>