Answer: B. Congress passes $50 Million Defense Bill
Explanation: Soft news stories are something entertaining or trendy. For example a local football player receiving a kidney. That story would be trying to make the reader feel sympathetic towards the football player.
The time i spend in nature was beautiful. I could feel the cold wet green grass tickle in between my toes as i walked bare foot. The air was fresh and flowed through my lungs soft and refreshing as i inhaled. The air made my skin damp and cold and the longer i stood out in the air i began to get paler and made me feel lifeless.
Some might experience per say an emotional high and low. Colors can also have a play in this. Usually a sunset goes up with soft colors but when the sunset starts to go away, all is lost and more harsher colors come into context. As in with the more softer colors, you feel relaxed and carefree. Wit the harsher colors, you feel angry and sad.
I think the line 'Since he was old enough to know, big boy' is the best line in the excerpt that uses metonymy. This is because the phrase 'he was old enough' is just an expanded meaning of the phrase 'big boy' - which is what metonymy is all about.