Metaphor: because there is a comparison between the treasures spread on the ground and the evil seed of Adam drifting from the shoreline
Readers should generally use quotes from the text to support their conclusion because that way they have backup to their conclusion. If they simply give their opinion without reasoning, then their conclusion can seem sketchy.
<span>Selection (a) is the most correct answer. This story was mostly about the powers of unrequited love and how it can have a lifelong effect on a person. The author, in this story, is recounting the power that such a romance had on her when she was but a teenager.</span>