B.
She is scared of holding it. If she was able to hold it without any fear, there would not be a problem.
It's either A or B. I would go with B though.
C is the answer you can only get one answer.
As treason is to the state. Being blasphemous means betraying what your religion stands for or doing and saying things that act opposed to it. In a similar manner, treason is the same to your country.
I would say "personification" and it seems to be used in the following passages, "joy whose hand is ever at his lips, and bidding adieu", "turning to poison while the bee-mouth sips"," Veil'd melancholy has his sovran shrine" and finally " his soul shall taste the sadness of her might". So joy is personified as being a hand at lips, the mouth like a bee (local simile) that sips, melancholy is like a person that has his shrine, and a soul can taste sadness.