It's C because the subject is " the new coaches " and the predicate is the rest.
Is that a poem?
If it is the one about the fire and the boys. Then the speaker doesn’t like his father in the beginning because he isn’t able to play with his friends. At the end he is grateful because the boys got in trouble and he wasn’t involved.
She relies on pathos by using emotionally charged words to motivate the troops.
The answer would be 2. By.