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)...
Que nesesitas? no entiendo. Como pasar?
We may actually need the passage.
The thesis statement or main claim must be debatable.
