"where the palmetto fronds whispered by the stream," is an example of simile

metaphor

personification

alliteration

Personification

It is not a similar because it is comparing something to another using like or as. It is not a metaphor because those are comparing something to another without using like or as. It is also not alliteration because it is where you are using the same sounds. Almost like a poem. The only one that fits that it personification.

Social darwinism refers to the the theory that people who succeed in our economic system will one day out compete those who fail. one day the rich will out succeed the poor so we'll that there will eventually be no more poor

They most like influence us an there self