I’d say:
I had a hard time deciding whether to write an essay about the works of “Eudora Welty, Joan Didion, Gwendolyn Brooks” because the rest of the punctuations doesn’t make sense.
But actually it should be:
I had a hard time deciding whether to write an essay about the works of Eudora Welty, Joan Didion, and Gwendolyn Brooks.
(Without the quotation marks and inclusion the word “and” before “Gwendolyn”)
CPersonification <span>Personification</span>
D
After he had the phone for one month, Derek’s parents met with him to talk about his bill.
B. her's showing possession of something
The degree of the adjective weakest in the sentence would be superlative. In the sentence '<span>Lighter metals meant that even the weakest horses could carry armored knights.', superlative is the degree of the adjective 'weakest'.</span>