The correct answer is C. Metonymy
An example would be going to a bar and ordering beer. You're not really ordering beer because beer cannot be separated or ordered, but you're ordering a bottle of beer. In this case, the noun beer takes over the meaning of the word bottle, and they are connected.
I'd go for the last option or D. both are more brilliant and athletic than anyone else
<span>d. The men who had built and fed the nation and fought in World War I were abandoned and struggling to survive</span>