Answer:
the narrator is saying that at all these things they attempted they failed and closer to the end they are talking about going to get their shoes shined and having to pay the shoe shiner
Explanation:
The correct answer is C. metaphor.
"Bright beams" that Nature has wrapped in black are Stella's eyes. In a way, it is also a simile, but every metaphor is a contracted simile (without "like").
There are other literary devices in this passage as well: contrast (black - bright), rhetorical question (one that doesn't have an answer, or an answer is obvious)...
A) The caustic, bitter remarks about the company CEO in the newspaper were obviously slanderous.
The word slanderous is defined as malicious and false. Caustic is defined as sarcastic which in turn can be false and similarly, bitter is defined as angry and hurt which in turn can be malicious.
The right answer for the question that is being asked and shown above is that: "The ballerina is able to read the news bulletin flawlessly while wearing a mask and handicap bags." The ironic about this excerpt is that <span>The ballerina is able to read the news bulletin flawlessly while wearing a mask and handicap bags.</span>
the answer is D. hope it helps.