The philosopher's work she is most likely reading is D. René Descartes. He was a French philosopher of the 17th century who claimed that <span>the body and mind, which are made up of different substances, interact both harmoniously and competitively in a living person. </span>
Answer: D) Personification.
Explanation: Personification is a figure of speech that consists in giving human characteristics to nonhuman objects. In the given excerpt from the poem "The First Snowfall" by James Russell Lowell we can see an example of the use of personification, in the phrase "every pine and fir and hemlock wore ermine.." it is giving the pine, fir and hemlock (nonhuman objects) a human characteristic (they are wearing ermine).
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