According to Aristotle, Diction is the metrical arrangement of the words.
The answer is B. This is excerpt from A Midsummers Night Dream, right?
He wants to take charge and start his own group. This shows he is a leader and doesn't neccessarily think things through.
The predicate is the very and everything that follows after it, which could include adverbs, prepositional phrases, and other parts of speech. For example, "The dog ran across the street to the neighbor's house". Find the verb (the action or in your case, a linking verb such as is, are, was, wear, am). In my example, the verb is 'ran'. So the predicate is:
-ran across the street to the neighbor's house
For your sentence, the predicate is -was very strong.