A. Because it is comparing the girl to a rose without using like or as. B. Simile because it uses like or as. C. and D. do not even make sense because they are not comparing anything.
Key words from the question: <span>commuters do not <u>truly </u>experience New York City
Answer A reflects this because it gives a specific example of a commuter coming into the city but going a whole year without actually experiencing a NYC area outside of where s/he may work. </span>
making an appeal to all for basic human decency in race relations
explaining the oppression black South Africans had faced for decades
showing the parallel between apartheid in South Africa and the Civil Rights movement. All 3 of these points were covered by Nelson Mandela's above speech and that basically he was appealing to all South Africans be they white or black to learn to live together in peace and equitably and renounce the apartheid white racist regime of the past.