Answer:
A: It can be difficult to figure out who you really are.
Explanation:
They are both trying to find out who they are in life, but they can't. Because there's so many things getting in the way of finding out who they are, and there's that same mini-plot in each story.
This is a simile! Because it is comparing two things using like or as
The answer is gerund because golfing ends in ING
<span>a comparison of two sets of events, ideas, and things</span>
