Which of the following lines from Komunyakaa's "Facing It" includes metaphor? a. My clouded reflection eyes me/like a bird of prey
b. I go down the 58,022 names,/ half-expecting to find/ my own in letters like smoke.
C. No tears. / I'm stone. I'm flesh.
D. Names shimmer on a woman's blouse/ but when she walks away/ the names stay on the wall.

C. No tears. / I'm stone. I'm flesh.

Explanation:

A metaphor is comparing something to something else without using the words "like" or "as", the person is comparing themselves to stone.

paine is arguying that they had tried everything before coming to the conclusion that they needed to fight for their freedom.

argument: "every quiet method for peace hath been ineffectual."

claim 1: "our prayers have been rejected with disdain; and only tended to convince us, that nothing flatters vanity, or confirms obstinacy in kings more than repeated petitioning and nothing hath contributed more than that very measure to make the kings of europe absolute."

claim 2: "wherefore, since nothing but blows will do, for god’s sake, let us come to a final separation, and not leave the next generation to be cutting throats, under the violated unmeaning names of parent and child."

no

explanation: