PART A: Which statement best expresses a theme of the short story? A. It's better to downplay your own intelligence. B. The government has been known to violate people's rights. C. High intelligence can be viewed as a dangerous thing. D. People have higher expectations for children as they grow up.

Neighbors peered at us as we walked by their eyes weighed us their eyes judged us and at the peered we straightened our backs and lifted our chins in contempt we didn’t care what they thought what rhetorical technique dose the passage best exemplify a: understatement b: parallelism c: hyperbole d: satire