Caption: motorcycle police escort school buses as they leave south boston high school at the end of sessions on the second day of court-ordered busing, september 14, 1974. some buses were stoned, and several arrests were made. (ap photo)

respond to the following in complete sentences: identify which of the following examples uses figurative language to describe the image. what makes the example you identified figurative language? which device is used? (10 points)

a. the motorcycle police sped through the busy streets of boston as they escorted the yellow school buses and the brave students to their destinations.
b. as a gardener protects a new plant from a strong storm, the motorcycle police protectively surrounded the line of school buses from the angry bystanders.

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Option B uses similes to compare the police to gardeners. Example: "As a gardener protects a new plant from a strong storm, the motorcycle police protectively surrounded the line of school buses from the angry bystanders." The whole sentence is a perfect example, the author of the sentence said that the police are protecting the school buses from the angry bystanders, like how gardeners protect their crops from storms.

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chapter i -- paris: september, 1792

a surging, seething, murmuring crowd of beings that are human only in name, for to the eye and ear they seem naught but savage creatures, animated by vile passions and by the lust of vengeance and of hate.

during the greater part of the day the guillotine had been kept busy at its ghastly work: all that france had boasted of in the past centuries, of ancient names, and blue blood, had paid toll to her desire for liberty and for fraternity.

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