Read the excerpt below and answer the question. Now I am a lake. A woman bends over me,
Searching my reaches for what she really is.

Which statement best expresses the significance of the metaphor in which the mirror compares itself to a lake in Plath's Mirror?

a. This metaphor is significant because the woman commits suic*** in the lake at the end of the poem.
b. This metaphor is significant because it suggests murky depth in which a woman is searching desperately to find herself.
c. This metaphor is significant because water is a symbol of youth and beauty, which the mirror reflects.
d. This metaphor is significant because as the woman grows older she begins to look like a fish in a dir** lake.

In order really to hate white people, one has to blot so much out of the mind — and the heart — that this hatred itself becomes an exhausting and self-destructive pose. but this does not mean, on the other hand, that love comes easily: the white world is too powerful, too complacent, too ready with gratuitous humiliation, and, above all, too ignorant and too innocent for that.which sentence best explains how the use of parallelism in the excerpt supports baldwin's purpose? a. it proves baldwin's central idea by highlighting the obvious.b. it emphasizes the problems that prevent one from loving the white world.c. it explains why the white world is unable to replace hate with love.d. it enumerates the many ways of dealing with the white world.