Which best describes how Thoreau employs figurative language in this sentence?
"On the 1st of April it rained and melted the ice, and in the early part of the day, which was very foggy, I heard a stray goose groping about over the pond and cackling as if lost, or like the spirit of a fog."
a. Thoreau compares a stray goose to the melting of the ice of Walden Pond.
b. Thoreau uses a simile to describe a stray goose as the spirit of the fog around him.
c. Thoreau personifies the ice as a spirit that is falling apart in the springtime weather.
d. Thoreau uses hyperbole to make the reader visualize the foggy morning scene he describes.