Answer: b. She used to wear pretty clothes and be lively-when she was Minnie Foster, one of the town girls, singing in the choir.
Explanation: In this sentence (and several other remarks) we learn something that is, plot-wise, very important about Mrs. Wright's past: she used to have a liveliness in her youth (before marrying) that is now gone and at some point in the last 20 years, she has stopped wearing pretty clothes.
Simile
She withered our like a smoked salmon
She howls like an animal whenever she is in pain
Metaphor
I will pronounce your name
She was a commodity on the market
Personification
The whole compound was busy
The ocean is calm
It depends whether you are writing a fiction book, say for example you a writing a book on the Victorians, it was a fact file, you would have to use events from real life i.e the death of Queen Victoria<span />
A prepositional phrase contains a preposition and usually a noun. Your answer would be the first choice.
example:
I went over the hill. "Over the hill" is a prepositional phrase.
