Identify the bolded words in the following passage and answer the questions that follow.
"thus spoke the self-existent sire: / then swiftly from the blazing pyre / the circling flames were backward rolled, / and, rising in his gentle hold / alive unharmed the maithil dame, / the lord of fire embodied came. / fair as the morning was her sheen, and gold and gems adorned the queen. / her form in crimson robes arrayed, / her hair was bound in glossy braid."
what is the function of the fire in this passage? a. the fire is destructive. c. the fire is out of control. b. the fire is purifying. d. the fire is being put out and so has no function. select the best answer from the choices provided a b c d

Returning from vietnam, we were given a parade. crowds of screaming people waving signs — not just on one road, one day. no, they were everywhere. every day. on the streets, on the television, on the radio. a hot, angry tangle of shaking fists and ugly words that threatened us like a monster with a hundred heads. our country had chewed us up and spit us out, and now we were being treated as if it were our fault. which sentence best uses figurative language to match the paragraph's tone? a. our feet were frozen in place as the street itself strained to hold us back. b. i felt unappreciated and condemned for actions i had thought were heroic. c. i hadn't expected to find myself in a rags-to-riches situation such as this. d. we had come home to a feeding frenzy and were being treated as bait.