Answer:
The sentence which best describes one effect of the poet's use of figurative language in this excerpt is:
C. It gives the speaker the quality of empathy to show that he is open to the pain of other Vietnam veterans.
Explanation:
"Facing It" is a poem by Yusef Komunyakaa. The speaker of the poem is visiting a memorial for those who lost their lives in the Vietnam War. He cannot help but feel deeply touched by the names and images he sees.
In the particular excerpt we are analyzing here, we find the following figurative language:
... then his pale eyes / look through mine. I'm a window."
When the speaker says he is a window, he is using a metaphor. What he means is that, just like light enters a window, those images enter his eyes, mind, and heart. He is empathetic to the pain of those people, and he is now forever changed, forever affected by what he has seen.
