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The answer is most likely the second one
<span>A. cheering in the stands, the spectators hoped the team would remember their skills.
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The first stanza contains an epic simile. "As wasps, provoked by children in their play" establishes the comparison to a hive of wasps provoked to attack by thoughtless children playing near (or directly messing with) the hive. Note that this is a simile because it makes a direct comparison (it uses "like" or "as" to directly compare two ideas)
