I will give 25 points if you answer this honestly please. In Dr. Seuss's controversial children's story, The Butter Battle Book, two factions who oppose each other for petty reasons create ever-more-elaborate weapons with which to threaten each other. Eventually each faction develops a weapon that can destroy the other side utterly. Although perhaps not obvious to the children who read the story, The Butter Battle Book mirrors the arms race of the Cold War between the United States and the Soviet Union that took place between the late 1940s and roughly 1990. Through the story Seuss makes a serious statement against the Cold War's necessity Which statement most accurately describes the inference the author is making and the historical context on which the inference is based?
A. the inference in the arms race between the two factions and the historical context is it's pettiness.
B. the inference in the butler's battle book and the historical context in the arms race.
C. the entrance is that Suess is making a statement in the historical context is the Cold War.
D. the inference is Seuss's opinion, and the historical context of the collapse of the Soviet Union.

"the children's hour" by henry wadsworth longfellow between the dark and the daylight, when the night is beginning to lower, comes a pause in the day's occupations, that is known as the children's hour. i hear in the chamber above me the patter of little feet, the sound of a door that is opened, and voices soft and sweet. from my study i see in the lamplight, descending the broad hall stair, grave alice, and laughing allegra, and edith with golden hair. a whisper, and then a silence: yet i know by their merry eyes they are plotting and planning together to take me by surprise. a sudden rush from the stairway, a sudden raid from the hall! by three doors left unguarded they enter my castle wall! they climb up into my turret o'er the arms and back of my chair; if i try to escape, they surround me; they seem to be everywhere. they almost devour me with kisses, their arms about me entwine, till i think of the bishop of bingen in his mouse-tower on the rhine! do you think, o blue-eyed banditti, because you have scaled the wall, such an old mustache as i am is not a match for you all! i have you fast in my fortress, and will not let you depart, but put you down into the dungeon in the round-tower of my heart. and there will i keep you forever, yes, forever and a day, till the walls shall crumble to ruin, and moulder in dust away! which literary device does longfellow use most frequently in the poem? a. simile b. metaphor c. repetition d. personification