In "the circuit," what is the effect of the author's use of the first-person point of view?
a.
readers recognize that the narrator is much smarter than he admits to being.
b.
readers closely identify with the narrator and understand his emotions.
c.
readers learn more than the narrator can ever know about other people.
d.
readers mistrust the narrator and suspect that he is not being totally honest with them.

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.