Read these lines from the poem "facing it" by yusef komunyakaa:
my clouded reflection eyes melike a bird of prey, the profile of nightslanted against morning. i turnthis way—the stone lets me go. i turn this way—i'm insidethe vietnam veterans memorial again, depending on the lightto make a difference.
which best describes one effect of the poet's use of simile in this excerpt?
a. it links two different things that prey on innocent lives: a bad memory and an undeclared war.
b. it depicts the vietnam war as a stone that heavily weighs on the speaker's conscience.
c. it gives a bird of prey the qualities of a soldier who goes to war to defend his country.
d. it compares the speaker's reflection to a predatory bird that haunts the speaker.

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