Read the passage on the left to answer the following questions: 5) Which BEST describes a connection between these two texts? A) Both look at ways that manufacturing could be improved in the South B) None of these represent a connection that can be made between these particular texts. C) Both speak of the need for the South to improve its condition by including all people. D) Both look at ways of improving race relations in the South in the wake of the Civil War.

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.