Read the following passage: Returning from Vietnam, we were indeed 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.

What is one way the author's use of language contributes to the tone of this passage?
A. The parallelism draws attention to the confusion of those returning.
B. The word parade is used sarcastically to create a lighthearted mood
c. The use of figurative language creates a feeling of resentment,
D. The phrase hot, angry tangle is used sarcastically to create iron​

Read the excerpt from "mother tongue." those tests were constructed around items like fill-in-the-blank sentence completion, such as “even though tom was mary thought he was ” and the correct answer always seemed to be the most bland combinations of thoughts, for example, “even though tom was foolish, mary thought he was ridiculous.” well, according to my mother, there were very few limitations as to what tom could have been and what mary might have thought of him. so i never did well on tests like that. how does tan build a central idea of her story in the excerpt? tan discusses the types of questions on achievement tests to support the idea that the tests limit students’ ability to write well. tan explains a question on a language achievement test to support the idea that the tests should include more interesting content. tan gives an example of her experience with achievement tests to support the idea that they are not always accurate measures of language ability. tan considers how her mother might answer a question on a test to support the idea that nonstandard english limits a person’s ability to communicate.