Which excerpt from The People Could Fly best reflects the historical fact that enslaved people were forced to work
under brutal conditions?

A. They kept their secret magic in the land of slavery

B. Nehemiah was always bein moved from one plantation to another

C. She flew clumsily at first, with the child now held tightly in her arms.

D. The slaves labored in the fields from sunup to sundown.

Read the stanza below from the poem “tattoo” by gregg shapiro and answer the question that follows. if i could trade places with him i would pad the rest of his days wrap him in gauze and velvet absorb the shocks and treat his wounds i would scrub the numbers from his flesh extinguish the fire and give him back his life what does shapiro use to create the conceit in the lines above? a) he carries one line of poetry onto the next. b) he paints vivid word pictures that trigger the imagination by appealing to the five senses. c) he directly expresses a metaphor using like, as, or than. d) he uses physical protection to represent emotional protection.