The answer would be D) to explore an idea because essays don't always have to tell history, they can tell current modern news as well, essays don't always have to be about facts, they can have opinions in as well, and essays are different from stories, stories have moral lessons while essays don't.
The simile of Lines 18 through 23 compares the storm clouds that whip across the sky from the horizon to the zenith to: locks of hair of a frenzied woman. (Ode to the West Wind).
Exclamatory because it has an exclamation point