Read the excerpt and answer the question. I suppose that futile waiting was the sorrowful background music of our impoverished little community when I was young. Which best describes the figurative language used in this sentence?

Read the excerpt and answer the question. I suppose that futile waiting was the sorrowful background music of our impoverished little community when I was young.

Which best describes the figurative language used in this sentence?

Idiom

metaphor

hyperbole

personification

Metaphor

Explanation:

According to the given excerpt, it is described that futile waiting was the sorrowful background music of their impoverished community when the narrator was young. The figurative language used in the excerpt is metaphor because it compares two dissimilar things.

which of the following was specifically permitted by the emancipation proclamation?

free african americans were allowed to fight for the confederacy.

free african americans were allowed to enlist in the union army and navy.

enslaved people in border states were allowed to move to the north.

enslaved people in border states were allowed to become confederate citizens.

c is a symbol. when bernice gets her hair cut, it is the authors way of showing the affects and demands of pier pressure and the over-all attitudes of people at the time.