Read the following excerpt from "the world without us" by alan weisman:
almost every other compound in nature contracts when
frozen, but h20 (water) molecules do the opposite,
organizing themselves into elegant hexagonal crystals that
take up about 9 percent more space than they did when
sloshing around in a liquid state. pretty six-sided crystals
suggest snowflakes so gossamer it's hard to conceive of
them pushing apart slabs of sidewalk.
which statement best describes the effect of the metaphor on the excerpt's
meaning?

Read the excerpt below and answer the question. there was a moment, in time, and in this place, when my brother, or my mother, or my father, or my sister, had to convey to me, for example, the danger in which i was standing from the white man standing just behind me, and to convey this with a speed, and in a language, that the white man could not possibly understand, and that, indeed, he cannot understand, until today. he cannot afford to understand it. this understanding would reveal to him too much about himself, and smash that mirror before which he has been frozen for so long. this excerpt from "if black english isn't a language, then tell me, what is? " is significant because -select all that apply- hughes imagines himself as a black slave. hughes uses black english to emphasize his argument. hughes uses a historical example to explain the origins of language. hughes explains the significance that black english holds for white people.