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.