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What type of figurative language is Douglass using when he calls all of America's prayers, hymns, sermons, thanksgivings, religious parade, and solemnity "a thin veil to cover up crimes which would disgrace a nation of savages."?
A) Douglas is using a paradox to show how a veil can be good as well as bad.
B) He is using personification to make the idea of the veil more vivid to his readers.
C) Douglass is using personification to show that religious parades are really just vanity to show off one's humility.
D) He is using a metaphor to show how these outward shows can easily be seen through (like a veil) and cannot truly cover up the obvious sin of slavery.

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I believe D is the correct answer

the speech this question is referring to is president kennedy's special message to the congress on urgent national needs, may 25, 1961

kennedy responds in a very direct and concrete way to those thinking that communism is a positive system:

"yet their aggression is more often concealed than open. they have fired no missiles; and their troops are seldom seen. they send arms, agitators, aid, technicians and propaganda to every troubled area. but where fighting is required, it is usually done by others--by guerrillas striking at night, by assassins striking alone--assassins who have taken the lives of four thousand civil officers in the last twelve months in vietnam alone--by subversives and saboteurs and insurrectionists, who in some cases control whole areas inside of independent nations." (kennedy)

president kennedy presents communism as cowardly, as a hidden and treacherous weapon that strikes from the shadows like thieves, he represents the system as not even being capable of showing and open and overt attack or confrontation. to finish up the response, he expresses that the system attacks even a country's idependence and freedom.