Answer 1 is B and answer 2 is B
The person above me is correct - this quite indeed uses the literary technique known as simile.
When you are comparing two things using words such as <em>like </em>or <em>as, </em>such as in this example ("like a fresh watercolor painting left out in the rain"), then it is a simile.
I believe it is C. Chronological order
I believe this because it first gives you background information for why the Taps were created, the saying one evening during the CW, and lastly says These days. And the taps were a bugle call that was made in 1862 during the English CW (the first paragraph), then one evening from 1862 they replaced Extinguish the Lights with Taps(2nd paragraph), then Now it’s used as a solemn farewell (third paragraph)
entomology i may be wrong but this is the answer that i got