The First sentence is where the quotation is used correctly- quotations is used with the titles of literary works and not with the name of the writers.
Francesca uses oil paints, but Martin prefers watercolors.
Metaphor; its showing how that rack was moving alot-something like how a teeter totter would look had someone been playing on it. it was comparing the rack to a teeter totter
I think it is B Consonance, because he rhymes beams and dreams. (Sorry if that doesn’t help)