Excerpt from desiree's babykate chopin"it was no wonder, when she stood one day against the stone pillar in whose shadow she had lain asleep, eighteen years before, that armand aubigny riding by and seeing her there, had fallen in love with her. that was the way all the aubignys fell in love, as if struck by a pistol shot. the wonder was that he had not loved her before; for he had known her since his father brought him home from paris, a boy of eight, after his mother died there. the passion that awoke in him that day, when he saw her at the gate, swept along like an avalanche, or like a prairie fire, or like anything that drives headlong over all obstacles." which universal theme best fits the passage?

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.