<u>Answer</u>:
The statement which contains an ironic use of understatement is: The pilot called flying from one side of the Atlantic to the other a simple task of "puddle jumping." So, the right answer over here is Option D.
<u>Explanation</u>:
When an author or a writer wants to make a situation seem less important or significant than it truly is then he/she makes an understatement. This figure of speech offers an ironic effect to a statement and results in saying something opposite than what is expected. In this statement mentioned above, the Atlantic ocean is ironically described as a puddle but it actually means that the Atlantic ocean is gigantic.
In my understanding of the two, they both show the mourning of the bombings. They both use very descriptive sensory imagery, irony and figurative language to show and describe what had happened ina way that you can allows you to be put in their shoes and feel the fear and the terror of that day. One of the poems use refrain saying that they will sing the song of freedom and i believe that even though it is a horrible situation they will stay strong and unite together for thier freedom. They wont let this pain distract them from gaining what is right. In that same poem the 2nd to last stanza the author asks questions they don't really make sense and i think that they did that to emphasize they those things dont belong, just like that bomb does not belong there and those girls did not deserve to die because they are angry. To some it may also look like the author is saying that hate does not belong here, segregation does not belong here, war amungst innocent people does not belong.. and its just the sense that both make you feel the sorrow of that day and also the powerful movement that happened after.
Where things are i would check a text book i i were you
Jesting with them and turning their hunger for food into homesickness
