The entire quatrain where that phrase is found talks about time itself. It says that time gives beauty, thus making that particular person handsome, but time also takes away that same beauty - unfair which fairly doth excel. What was once young and beautiful will become old and wither as time goes by.
Answer:
Nope to be more grammatically it would be
bake
the
chocolate cookies in the
oven
Hello!! I, personally, think it's A. Direct.
Metaphor is when your comparing two things without using like or as and a simile is when ur comparing two things using like or as
