Item 17
Read the excerpt from Inside Out and Back Again.

Finally President Thiêu appears,
tan and sweaty.
We know you have suffered.
I thank you,
Your country thanks you.

Then he cries actual tears,
unwiped, facing the cameras.

Mother clicks her tongue:

Tears of an ugly fish.

I know that to mean
fake tears of a crocodile.

What is the meaning of the figurative language in the excerpt?

Drag the correct answer into the box.