The correct answer is C. metaphor.
"Bright beams" that Nature has wrapped in black are Stella's eyes. In a way, it is also a simile, but every metaphor is a contracted simile (without "like").
There are other literary devices in this passage as well: contrast (black - bright), rhetorical question (one that doesn't have an answer, or an answer is obvious)...
It took 84 for days for the old man to catch a fish in the book
A hero never gives up on a quest.
A hero takes big risks to face a challenge.
The answer would be Infantryman/Infinitive
Answer:
Both Doodle and the scarlet ibis do not belong to the environment that surrounds them. The bird belongs to the tropical islands, not North Carolina. Yet, they both die with grace and dignity. They were both struggling as they died; when the narrator described Doodles dead form he pointed out his elongated vermillion neck and his knees which were bend at a weird angle which resembled that of the scarlet ibis.
