8. Mr. Williams taught global studies, a class designed to give students a view of life beyond the United States. Thinking globally, what group of people might be represented by the birds flying far overhead and what group of people might be represented by “those of us whose wings have been clipped” or “those of us who dwell in unknown spaces, those of us who are beautiful beyond belief but
that sometimes exist in environs too deep and murky to be seen from any stable surface.”

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.