I am not sure which poem you are referring to here, but one poetical technique is called enjambment. This occurs when a line continues to the next line without a pause. Even if there is a stanza break in between, the lines are meant to be read continuously. For example, consider these lines from a poem by William Wordsworth called Beauteous Evening:
"The holy time is quiet as a Nun
Breathless with adoration; the broad sun
Is sinking down in its tranquility"
Here, Wordsworth is not intending that you pause after you read "Nun" or "sun." He wants you to read these lines as a continuous sentence or thought. Hope this helps.
The first stanza contains an epic simile. "As wasps, provoked by children in their play" establishes the comparison to a hive of wasps provoked to attack by thoughtless children playing near (or directly messing with) the hive. Note that this is a simile because it makes a direct comparison (it uses "like" or "as" to directly compare two ideas)
I believe the correct answer is C. Hope this helped!
-Twixx
