6.
part b: which section from the text best supports the answer to par
a. "she sat very still through it all, watching him with a
went further and further away from her with each word.
and i know it's kind of a bad time to be telling you, bet
other way." (paragraph 35)
"it occurred to her that perhaps he hadn't even spoken,
imagined the whole thing." (paragraph 36)
"when she walked across the room she couldn't feel
iked across the room she couldn't feel her feet touching the
(paragraph 38)
tall, watching him with a kind of dazed horror as he
with each word." (paragraph 34)
telling you, bet there simply wasn't any
even spoken, that she herself had

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