It should be a simile because the word 'like' is there.
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This line comes from "The Things They Carried" by Tim O Brien when he served in Vietnam. The term hard vocabulary to contain terrible softness simply reflects what he has done to serve in Vietnam. In times of war, it is not good to be internally soft as it may serve as weakness to enemies. Therefore, hard vocabulary refers to the words that one would say to himself and others in order to project strength and hide softness or weakness inside.
Answer:
Minority viewpoints are often not heard.
Explanation:
Is this about a specific poem?
It would be C because it is the only one that you could write a full essay on. It makes it vague enough so that you can cover all the areas that you want to be able to prove and persuade the reader into also thinking that, that particular book is better than the author's other books. That thesis gives you your foundation so that then you can work from the ground up, and it makes it easier to persuade, because like I said, it's vague and you can include every single one of your points to be made into the essay. The other options focus too much on one minute detail of the story, that you wouldn't really even have an essay.