Read the excerpt from Walt Whitman's poem "I Sit and Look Out" that Clara is using in her analysis of "The
Caged Bird."
Clara chose this excerpt to help support her
interpretation of "The Caged Bird" because it has an
extended metaphor that examines
I sit and look out upon all the sorrows of the world, and
upon all oppression and shame; I hear the secret
convulsive sobs ...
O secrecy.
O sacrifice.
shame.
suffering.
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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.