I can't really answer question 3 or 5 due to not seeing the passage or the picture to said passage, but I can answer question 4 for you. I would say the answer to 4 would be a.
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)...
<span>The word best describes the tone of the “Address at Rice University on the Nation's Space Effort is "personal"</span>
