The rhetorical appeal would be pathos because it is asking the audience to appeal to emotion
The allusion refers to Albert Einstein and his scientific ideas
The correct answer is D.
In this excerpt from "Goodbye to All That," Didion seeks to explain that the time she spent in New York went by so quickly she did not even notice. She compares her experience with that of a movie, in which several years may pass in just a minute.
She expresses that, looking back, it all feels surreal, like something that she saw on a movie.
So in other words id say D
