The levee breach left 80% of the city immediately submerged and 100,000 people stranded.
Which of these best explains why the sentence above is a fact instead of an
opinion?
A. The numbers can be verified or disproved.
B. The 80% figure is very accurate.
C. The words "most" and "least" do not appear.
O D. No one ever counted the exact number of people stranded.

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.