Read these lines from the poem "facing it" by yusef komunyakaa: my clouded reflection eyes melike a bird of prey, the profile of nightslanted against morning. i turnthis way—the stone lets me go. i turn this way—i'm insidethe vietnam veterans memorial again, depending on the lightto 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.

A compares the speakers reflection to a predatory Burr that haunts the speaker

Comparing the speaker’s reflection to a predatory bird emphasizes that the speaker is still haunted by the war. D.

Explanation: I just took the test on apex.

the speech this question is referring to is president kennedy's special message to the congress on urgent national needs, may 25, 1961

kennedy responds in a very direct and concrete way to those thinking that communism is a positive system:

"yet their aggression is more often concealed than open. they have fired no missiles; and their troops are seldom seen. they send arms, agitators, aid, technicians and propaganda to every troubled area. but where fighting is required, it is usually done by others--by guerrillas striking at night, by assassins striking alone--assassins who have taken the lives of four thousand civil officers in the last twelve months in vietnam alone--by subversives and saboteurs and insurrectionists, who in some cases control whole areas inside of independent nations." (kennedy)

president kennedy presents communism as cowardly, as a hidden and treacherous weapon that strikes from the shadows like thieves, he represents the system as not even being capable of showing and open and overt attack or confrontation. to finish up the response, he expresses that the system attacks even a country's idependence and freedom.

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