A sentence fragment is a sentence that cannot stand on its own because it is incomplete and lacks an independent clause. So, the answer is "Tiny, weightless crystals." It's an incomplete sentence. To make it complete, you can rewrite it as "The snow is like tiny, weightless crystals."
"Here is a partial list of what we took when we hiked a portion of the Appalachian Trail, some bug spray, a tent, some tins of food, some water bottles, and a first aid kit." The answer is D, a comma, because what you took on your trip is not a complete sentence, therefore not deserving a semi-colon (;) or a colon (:). B, is used to say ect. or break a quote into pieces. Therefore, the answer is D.
When an author carefully chooses her words, she is using Diction. Diction are emotionally-charged words which the author chose herself
The poem has a different understanding once you take into account she committed suicide soon after. In the poem she talk of being dead in the figurative sense and hiding it with smiles of accomplishment and illusions. Instead after you see she meant she was dead inside and when she talked of her feet saying we've gone to far she means she's tired of living. And again she talks of flowe petals closing as she closes in on herself.