It's A. Because a simile is a fugue of speech involving the comparison of one thing to another thing of a different kind.
The correct answer is A) metaphor. Metaphor is just comparison without using 'as', or 'like', so it is a shortened simile. Instead of saying 'a years is like a Ferris wheel', you can just say that without 'like', and the meaning will be the same. The whole line is a metaphor, so symbolic meaning of something else.
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Maria feels proud of herself when she works hard and gets good grades in her classes.
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