Read the following passage. whenever we go to see our friend, we take the bus, which is usually an express bus, except on weekends. we have learned after taking the bus so many times that we will have to wait a long while for it because the bus is almost always late. we don't mind, and because we are used to it, we always ride it. in the passage, which characteristic of sentence structure is the most evident? very formal organization complex sentence structure varied sentence lengths simple sentences

Read the excerpt below from the poem "exile" by julia alvarez and answer the question that follows. i let myself lie back in deep waters, my arms out like jesus' on his cross, and instead of sinking down like i'd always done, magically, that night, i could stay up, floating out past the driveway, past the gates, in the black ford, papi grim at the wheel, winding through the back roads, stroke by difficult stroke, out on the highway, heading toward the coast. which literary device is used in the comparison between the speaker's experience of fleeing the country and floating in the ocean? i let myself lie back in deep waters, my arms out like jesus' on his cross, and instead of sinking down like i'd always done, magically, that night, i could stay up, extended metaphor symbolism simile theme