**30 points**

"in a job like that you see the dirty work of empire at close quarters. the wretched prisoners huddling in the stinking cages of the lock-ups, the grey, cowed faces of the long-term convicts, the scarred buttocks of the men who had been bogged with bamboos--all these oppressed me with an intolerable sense of guilt."

which phrase demonstrates the author's choice to include literal statements?

a. dirty work of empire

b. a job like that

c. an intolerable sense

d. all these oppressed me