Please answer this rtc

Dear student,

1.
a. 'I' is the poetess, Kamala Das.
b. She realised with pain that her mother, who was sitting beside her in the car, was growing old.
c. The realisation was painful because it reminded the poetess of her childhood nightmare, that one day, her mother would grow old and pass away.
d. The figure of speech used is simile in the line 'her face ashen like that of a corpse'.

Regards