Which passage best reveals a flaw of odysseus?
a. “cyclops, if any mortal man ever asks you who it was
that inflicted upon your eye this shameful blinding,
tell him that you were blinded by odysseus, sacker of cities.”
b. “i only wish it were certain that i could make you reft of spirit
and life, and send you to the house of ”
c. “cyclops, in the end it was no weak man's companions
you were to eat by violence and force in your hollow
too strong for you, hard one, who dared to eat your own ”
d. “ah now, a prophecy spoken of old is come to ”

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.