Which text in this excerpt from William Dean Howells's "Editha" exposes the author’s opposition to conventional ideas of patriot
ism? "No, you didn't expect him to get killed," Mrs. Gearson repeated in a voice which was startlingly like George's again. "You just expected him to kill someone else, some of those foreigners, that weren't there because they had any say about it, but because they had to be there, poor wretches—conscripts, or whatever they call 'em. You thought it would be all right for my George, your George, to kill the sons of those miserable mothers and the husbands of those girls that you would never see the faces of." The woman lifted her powerful voice in a psalm-like note. "I thank my God he didn't live to do it! I thank my God they killed him first, and that he ain't livin' with their blood on his hands!" She dropped her eyes which she had raised with her voice, and glared at Editha. "What you got that black on for?" She lifted herself by her powerful arms so high that her helpless body seemed to hang limp its full length. "Take it off, take it off, before I tear it from your back!"
This is somewhat subjective of course, but the best option from the list would be that "<span>C. It shows how wisdom overcomes ignorance" it could mean other things as well. </span>
Biblical Allusion [bib-li-kuh l uh-loo-zhuh n ]: a reference within a literary work to a story, idea, or event that is related in the Bible or other biblical writings
If you're talking about "Dreams" by Langston Hughes, that poem uses two key metaphors: "broken winged bird that cannot fly" and a "barren field frozen with snow".
