What is the best way to change this sentence from passive voice to active voice?
a. by the moon's orbit around the earth, the tidal effects of the ocean are created
b. the moon's orbit around the earth creates the tidal effects of the ocean
c. created are the tidal effects of the ocean by the moon's orbit around the earth
d. the ocean's tidal effects are created by the moon's orbit around the earth

Is "words dying" personification? !

Read the following excerpt from "dark tower" by claude mckay before you choose your answer. "we shall not always plant while others reap the golden increment of bursting fruit, nor always countenance, abject and mute, that lesser men should hold their brothers cheap; not everlastingly while others sleep shall we beguile their limbs with mellow flute, not always bend to some more subtle brute. we were not made eternally to weep. the night, whose sable breast relieves the stark, white stars, is no less lovely being dark; and there are buds that cannot bloom at all in light, but crumple, piteous, and fall. so in the dark we hid the heart that bleeds, and wait, and tend our agonizing needs." in context, the expression "the night, whose sable breast relieves the stark,/ white stars, is no less lovely being dark; " is best interpreted as a. the light of the stars overpowers the black of night b. the black of night overpowers the light of the stars c. black and white contribute equally to the beauty of the night sky d. black and white continuously compete for prominence in the night sky

Who dies in a duel because of his pride and his anger