Why does the author compare emotional
awareness to a muscle?

According to homer's iliad, which greek god was helen of troy's father? a. apollo b. poseidon c. zeus d. hades

If you had read the label carefully, you wouldn’t have bought the expired product. what does it means? a. you didn’t buy the expired product because you read the level carefully. b. you didn’t read the label carefully so you bought the expired product.

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