In vietnam, the jungle itself turned you into an animal. it reached out and pulled you in. we willingly performed the outward transformation of camouflaging ourselves — tucking foliage into our helmets, smearing our faces with ash that stung our nostrils. but something inside us was changing as well. we were becoming beasts — stalking our prey, baring our fangs. and when the time came, attacking.
which sentence best uses figurative language to match the paragraph's tone?
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the jungle was alive with the sounds of nature — strange birds were our alarm clock in the morning.
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i pressed myself against the trunk of a thick tree — a wolf in sheep's clothing waiting to strike.
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i was surprised and frightened by this change that allowed me to attack without remorse.
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far from the comforts of home, we had entered this conflict in order to let sleeping dogs lie.

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Follow the directions (and example) given to create your own sonnet. william shakespeare's sonnet 130 my mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun, coral is far more red, than her lips red, if snow be white, why then her breasts are dun: if hairs be wires, black wires grow on her head: i have seen roses damasked, red and white, but no such roses see i in her cheeks, and in some perfumes is there more delight, than in the breath that from my mistress reeks. i love to hear her speak, yet well i know, that music hath a far more pleasing sound: i grant i never saw a goddess go, my mistress when she walks treads on the ground. and yet by heaven i think my love as rare, as any she belied with false compare. instructions: write fourteen lines of iambic pentameter. use a sonnet rhyme scheme. use the first eight lines to set up your idea (the octave). use the last six lines to conclude your idea (sestet). (variety may be added by including a substitute foot from time to time such as the two anapests in line 3 above.) work in small groups giving each other feedback. reading the sonnet aloud allows you to hear the words and rhythms of the lines. generate questions that will clarify the use of words and forms. for example: was the idea of the sonnet presented in the first eight lines? how was sound used to enhance the meaning of the sonnet?

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