Read these lines from the poem "Camouflaging the Chimera" by Yusef
Komunyakaa:
But we waited
till the moon touched metal,
till something almost broke
inside us. VC struggled
with the hillside, like black silk
wrestling iron through grass.
Which sentence best describes one effect of the poet's use of figurative language in this excerpt?
A. It shows the VC's difficulty on the hillside to emphasize the challenging nature of the environment.
B. It links two dissimilar things, the city and black silk, to illustrate how the soldiers blended into the landscape.
C. It relies on two similar words, "struggled" and "wrestling," to communicate the strenuous nature of war.
D. It compares the struggle of the VC with the struggle of a silkworm emerging from its cocoon.