Maybe something along the lines of keeping them alive or they are the reason for who we are today, they are a part of us
The simile “lay down / to sleep like a snow-covered road / winding through pines” refers to death. To be more exact, to death of the author's father. The message that author wanted to convey is to show how people can pass through their loss and to represent all the loneliness of death, comparing it to the loneliness of the winter road, empty and deserted.
D. recite important items of the text out loud
When Lady Bracknell says: "A hundred and thirty thousand pounds! And in the funds! Miss Cardew seems to me a most attractive young lady, now that I look at her"
Even though the whole scene is about trying to show that Miss Cardew is eligible for marriage, Lady Bracknell doesn't seem to accept it until she learns how much money she has. Suddenly then she seems to be a viable candidate for marriage.
The answer is C. a person's ability to avoid d*mnation.
A contrast of a person to a spider shows God could hold a person over the pit of hell, much as one holds a spider. The writer adopted the spider as his way to say that we’re no different than spiders in the eyes of God. We could be crushed or crumbled to our downfall in a matter of seconds.