Which of the following quotes would work best in the conclusion to an essay about the importance of hard work?
a. “what makes the desert beautiful is that somewhere it hides a well.” –antoine de saint-exupery
b. “the task of art today is to bring chaos into order.” –theodor adorno
c. “it is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.” –rene descartes
d. “without labor nothing prospers.” – sophocles

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.