Answer:
1. sarah trained hard for the competition, but she did NOT win any of the trophies.
B.) adverb
2. The language of the epic can be STRIKINGLY vivid.
D.) adverb
3. NO ONE believed the woman when she said she was at the crime scene that night.
B.) pronoun
4. CHILDHOOD is considered by many poets as the age closest to nature.
C.) compound noun
5. The president HERSELF had to intervene to settle the dispute.
B.) intensive pronoun