Answer:
1/3
Explanation:
The summary should be around one-third as long as the original.
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)...
Answer:
I think the answer is friends support each other despite their differences because the other answers don't make much sense to me.