The type of figurative language which is "leaping, live drops of rain" is C. Personification.
This refers to the figure of speech that attributes human characteristics to inanimate objects.
Hence, we can see that from the given excerpt, there is the narration of the old man and how he stopped his car and there were "leaping, live drops of rain" and this is personification because rain cannot leap.
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