Relating these to Australian slang words, if "banger" relates to a sausage, then "cocky" would be short for a cockatoo. A cockatoo is a bird that is a native to Australia. Though "cocky" may also mean someone who is overconfident in a bossy way, seeing as how banger is used as a slang word, cocky as a cockatoo is more fitting.
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c. the narrator knows the thought of all the characters
The literary device used in this sentence is analogy
C is correct because students need the pronoun they