Elusive, to be missing or hard to find
This is a simile as it compares two things using the word like. It compares her running across the grass to a cheetah chasing its prey, implying she is running very fast
This would be handle through speeches, talks, assembly's, conventions, and so on. This would be the ways that we would be able to convince the people who are coming to these places to convince them about what ever the topic that we would be speaking about.