It can be both. Audience is plural and singular.
Letter B. This part of the presentation is proposing a solution to the problem. Stating that cities and states taxed sugary beverages at a higher rate serves as a solution or probably a suggestion to what a state/city can do so that people will be encouraged to make healthier choices by preferring less costly drinks.
Not Hyperbole, not Idiom, not Metaphor, so it must be Personification
Answer: ''What, then, remains to be argued? Is it that slavery is not divine; that God did not establish it; that our doctors of divinity are mistaken?''
Explanation:
That is the title that is given as the speech of Frederick Douglass in 1852 in New York and this excerpt is best showing counterclaim because in it he is mentioning the claim that was before.
''What, then, remains to be argued? Is it that slavery is not divine; that God did not establish it; that our doctors of divinity are mistaken?''