Read these lines from the poem "facing it" by yusef komunyakaa:

my clouded reflection eyes me
like a bird of prey, the profile of night
slanted against morning. i turn
this way—the stone lets me go.
i turn this way—i'm inside
the vietnam veterans memorial
again, depending on the light
to make a difference.
which best describes one effect of the poet's use of simile in this excerpt?
a. it links two different things that prey on innocent lives: a bad memory and an undeclared war.
b. it depicts the vietnam war as a stone that heavily weighs on the speaker's conscience.
c. it gives a bird of prey the qualities of a soldier who goes to war to defend his country.
d. it compares the speaker's reflection to a predatory bird that haunts the speaker.

Which is the following lines from hamlet's " to be or not to be " soliloquy express his questions about what one experiences after death ? select all that apply

The brother of a presidential candidate writes an editorial in which he defends this candidate against charges of corruption. in such a circumstance, it is most appropriate for the reader to a) suspect that the candidate may have been framed. b) consider whether the candidate has the best family or not. c) wonder if the writer may be biased, due to his family connection. d) wonder if the writer may be inaccurate, due to wanting to get people to read his column. \

Read this excerpt from chapter 1 of i know why the caged bird sings by maya angelou and answer the queswhen i was three and bailey four, we had arrived in the musty little town, wearing tags on our wrists whinstructed - 'to whom it may concern' - that we were marguerite and bailey johnson negropassengers, who always traveled with loaded lunch boxes, felt sorry for the poor littleand plied us with cold fried chicken and potato salad.deducing from the diction, which of the following are possible audiences for the memoir select all that appchildren of three and four years of age like ones in the memoirafrican-american adults from the south who can relate to angelou's storycaucasian adults interested in american historytrain conductors and passengers