The answer is A contrasting bright colors and dark colors.
It is a fragment.
Although it has a subject and predicate, it is a subordinate clause as it starts with 'especially', indicating an adjective or adverb clause.
The correct answer should be
<span>A. The Victorians believed in the value of hard work.
They believed that people should work hard and try their best even if they aren't that capable of being successful. In this poem, he says that he and his peers are old but that doesn't mean that they should give up but rather that they should not yield and should try to strive, seek, and find.</span>
D because a metaphor is saying something IS something.