You actually need to affirm their identity before you present information that might be contradictory to what they believe," Van Bavel says.
Answer:
Subject - Being Verb - Adjective
Explanation:
The subject is flower (in this case, the is an article, a type of adjective), the verb is were, and beautiful is a predicate adjective modifying flowers.
C. drawing open the curtains . makes no sense. should be somewhere in the beginning of the sentence instead of in the very end.
I believe the answer is a Metaphor.