Which one of the following phrases contains vivid words that create imagery?
a. cotton-like clouds
b. sang a solo
c. traveled far
d. twenty soldiers

The correct answer is A. Cotton-like clouds.

This is a rather descriptive choice that is used to bring the image of cotton to your mind and then use that image of cotton to create a new image of the clouds. Unlike the soldiers, it not only describes the looks, but also the feeling, the fluffiness of cotton.

"An apprehensive night crawled slowly by like a wounded snake and sleep did not visit Rainsford, although the silence of a dead world was on the jungle."

Explanation:

The first sentence in the second paragraph represents personification because the night cannot actually crawl. Personification mean to give human like qualities to a non human thing. But this sentence is also a simile as well, it uses "like", which js comparing the night that "crawled" with a snake.