Although the villagers had forgotten the ritual and lost the original black box, they still remembered to use stones. the pile of stones the boys had made earlier was ready; there were stones on the ground with the blowing scraps of paper that had come out of the box. mrs. delacroix selected a stone so large she had to pick it up with both hands and turned to mrs. dunbar. "come on," she said. "hurry up." in this excerpt, the references to stones create at the end of "the lottery." allegory backstory foreshadowing suspense

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