The statement that best explains how the poet's use of figurative language in this excerpt conveys the tone is "She uses personification to show that time is unable to ease a broken heart"
Explanation:
“Time does not bring relief; you all have lied” by Edna St. Vincent Millay is a poem that tells the story of a heartbroken woman who can not find peace or relief from her pain, and he makes time an important character by giving it curative and healing attributes as if its a person or a thing that you can actually see.
I don't really get the question but, chinese culture are very strict on things like andressing your elders with respect. Hispanics are also this strict.