5) A story about a student's overseas travels has shifting points of view. Throughout, the reader keeps encountering the words "The lingering scent of mint." These words could be helping to create a .
mood
paradox
synecdoche
characterization
paradox

Characterization

Explanation:

When we talk about a story about a student's overseas travels has shifting points of view and the reader keeps encountering the words "The lingering scent of mint." These words could be helping to create a Characterization.

Characterization is the process of creating a character which is mostly fictional in a literary work.

- "a nonrestrictive clause functions as a modifier to a noun (that is an object, person or concept). these clauses can be described by the following three options: it is set off by comas, it contains a subject and a verbs and it adds nonessential information to the sentence.

for example, in "here is bill gates, who confounded microsoft software company" we can identify "who confounded microsoft software company" as a nonrestrictive clause modifying the noun bill gates. this clause can be describes as a nonrestrictive clause because it is separated by a comma, it adds nonessential information to identify who bill gates is and it must contain both a subject (who) and a verb (confounded)."