Read the following passage:
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.
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b. i felt unappreciated and condemned for actions i had thought
were heroic.
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c. we had come home to a feeding frenzy and were being treated as
bait.
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d. i hadn't expected to find myself in a rags-to-riches situation such
as this.

What is the main theme reflected in this excerpt from "ulysses" by alfred, lord tennyson?

She has combed and brushed her night-dark hair, and bathed rose petal sweet, and drawn white gloves on her small brown hands, and white shoes on her feet. which literary technique does the stanza demonstrat

Read the passage first of all if someone says your dream is impossible, they’re wrong. you can’t prove that something is impossible-all you know is that[it] hasn’t been done yet. people said no one could scale mount everest but in 1953, sir edmund hilary and tenzing norway gazed down upon the world from it’s summit. people said that man could not fly, but in 1903, orville and wilbur wright made the first sustained powered flight in a heavier-than-air machine. people said, “okay, we admit that someone could climb mount everest, and we admit that man has learned to fly, but no one will ever, ever walk on the face of the moon.” if we can send three men a quarter of a million miles away and bring them home safely, is there any great task we cannot accomplish? which identifies the textual evidence that best supports the claim: the authors purpose is to persuade? a: the author shares historical information about the wright brothers. b: the author states that men have walked the moon. c: the author states that others who think your dreams are impossible are wrong. d: the author wants to know what tasks we cannot accomplish.