25 points if answered in 10 minutes"By the agency of his staff officer Joseph Reed, who arranged the poem's
publication in the Virginia Gazette, Washington probably wanted to show his fellow
Virginians a former slave who was not only literate, but loyal to the American cause
-an astute tactic at a time when Virginia was wracked with fear of slave
insurrections, incited by Governor Dunmore's call in November 1775 for slaves to
come fight on the British side."

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.