What type of figurate language is shown? "in surprise and consternation, the emigrants gazed at its blank face, then toward the dreary waste beyond. presently, my mother knelt before it and began searching for fragments of paper, which she believed crows had wantonly pecked off and dropped to the ground. "
a. metaphor
b. personification
c. allusion
d. hyperbole

Plz first person to respond get brainest read the passage. i pictured myself lazing on a stretch of white sand, a gentle blue sea rocking before me and palm trees rustling behind me. i could go for that. "just think," added josh,"no freezing rain or sub-zero temperatures." "no tornadoes . no blizzards," contributed kayla. "just lovely,sunny days." which provides the best textual support for the claim that the propose of this paragraph is to entertain?