Which element is used in both “Ambush” and “Facing It” to create tension and conflict?

Both poems create tension through narrators who are inwardly conflicted. In “Ambush,” the speaker wrestles with guilt and uncertainty about whether he would have killed the man he encountered in Vietnam. In “Facing It,” the speaker struggles with grief, memory, and the effects of war while visiting the Vietnam Veterans Memorial. This shared conflict in the narrators’ thoughts makes D, “the conflicted thoughts of the narrators,” correct.

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