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The Correct answer is false
The correct answer is C. Figurative language
Explanation:
Figurative language refers to the non-literal language, this implies figurative languages uses words and phrases in a non-conventional way, this includes the use of metaphor, simile, personification, onomatopoeia, and other literary figures.
The excerpt presented is a clear example of figurative language because it uses words and phrases in a non-conventional way, this can be seen in "like pale flags" that is an example of simile in which the author compares the curtains to flags to express how the move; also this can be seen in "the wine-colored rug" that the author uses to express the color of the rug, and it "as wind does on the sea" that uses comparison to describe the way the curtains form a shadow over the rug.
He faces obstacles such as the Cyclops, Scylla and Charybdis, and the Sirens.
Baldwin not only describes how white people hate black people, but also shows why black people carry the same act. At one point in his book, he writes: “I imagine that one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, that they will be forced to deal with pain.” It is the representation of a post-hate state: the hate is gone, but the process continues - the person suffers the consequences of his acts after realizing what he has done. The correct answer is B.