B: Informal style.
You can see this as the narrator says “the lead actor - I totally forgot his name - was crazy good.”
It represents life because life is a journey and on that journey you will face some difficulties on the way until you die.
His audience was mostly puritan as was the case in the 18th century. His audience was probably scared mindless because his sermons usually included scary and vivid description of suffering, hell, sins, the devil, which was all supposed to scare you into being a better christian.
A: prefix - beginning
B: root - middle
C: suffix - end
An omniscient narrator knows everything necessary to relay the story to the reader. The correct answer is A.