Metaphors, Similes, Personification examples in civil disobedience by Thoreau

Metaphor a figure of speech in which a word or phrase is applied to an object or action to which it is not literally applicable.
simile a figure of speech involving the comparison of one thing with another thing of a different kind, used to make a description more emphatic or vivid (e.g., as brave as a lion, crazy like a fox ). uses like or as
personification the attribution of a personal nature or human characteristics to something nonhuman, or the representation of an abstract quality in human form

The correct answer is b