The first one is better in my opinion
The answer is
“A. The injustice of discrimination.”
The reason for this is that the dog is at old age, stinky and is about to die. And in the book Carlson believes his useless for that reason, and the dog was discriminated for it. The author expressed how society treats (or discriminate) people of old age, person with disabilities and minorities.
It is a a metaphore because it compares her hair to a mass of gray ringlets
Answer:
"Admit impediments. Love is not love"
"Or bends with the remover to remove"
Explanation:
Slant rhythm is essentially when a poet uses two words that sound really similar, but they don't not exactly rhyme with each other.
Look for a pair of lines that are like that:
"Admit impediments. Love is not love"
"Or bends with the remover to remove"
Here, we see the words "love" and "remove"; obviously, we know that they don't exactly rhyme, but they are relatively close enough both in sound and spelling. So, this pair is the answer.