What connotation is created with the use of the word "blithe"?

Which two phrases in this information about medicare prescription drug coverage are noun phrases

4.in those days the church was not merely a thermometer that recorded the ideas and principles of popular opinion; it was a thermostat that transformed the mores of society. •type of figurative language: •meaning of figurative language: •effect on tone and mood: •effect on audience: choose out of these: hyperbole, irony, historical question, paradox, allusion, metaphor, personification, symbolism and simile

Which story stgory scenario would most likely be a parable