What is the significance of maya angelou's depiction of her own youthful admiration for william shakespeare in i know why the caged bird sings?
a. it is indicative of her effort to rebel against her grandmother's views on racism.
b. it demonstrates that she loves beautiful language and appreciates many kinds of writers.
c. it suggests that she will grow up to write many shakespearean sonnets.
d. it shows how she uses shakespeare's works as a buffer between her and other children.

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.