The best answer would be A.
The entire excerpt describes the speaker's admiration of the structure, not just of its physical beauty but the history that came with it. This first part of the excerpt details the "recent rust". It is old and a bit rundown, but still very familiar to the speaker. The last part describes how the speaker is trying hard to imagine what the great house looked like when it was newly built --"early shine".
A, you always need a hook, thesis, and a little bit of backround info
Point of view - Perspective (How you view life or certain situations)
Inference - Guess (Inference is when you dont know something, so you assume by reasoning with logic)
Narrator - Storyteller (A storyteller.)
Surrounding - Context (Context is the situation you or someone is in. It can also be words that surround a sentence or word that paint a better picture of the meaning.)
C The kittens in the basket meow loudly for their mother
