Which BEST identifies the tone in these excerpts? A) Both excerpts express a tone of relief.
B) Both excerpts express a tone of reconciliation.
C) Chesnutt's excerpt creates a tone of disappointment and Dunbar's excerpt creates a tone of scrutiny.
D) Chesnutt's excerpt creates a tone of scrutiny and Dunbar's excerpt creates a tone of disappointment.

Read the excerpt below and answer the question. isn’t this like condemning socrates because his unswerving commitment to truth and his philosophical inquiries precipitated the act by the misguided populace in which they made him drink hemlock? isn’t this like condemning jesus because his unique god consciousness and never ceasing devotion to god’s will precipitated the evil act of crucifixion? what rhetorical technique does martin luther king employ in this excerpt from “letter from birmingham jail”? select all that apply. allusion extended metaphor figurative language simile