English

Patricia Wilkins

24 January, 04:50

Read these lines from the poem "Facing It" by Yusef Komunyakaa:

My clouded reflection eyes me

like a bird of prey, the profile of night

slanted against morning. I turn

this way-the stone lets me go.

I turn this way-I'm inside

the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

again, depending on the light

to 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.