The following sentances begins with two participles what word do they modify?

battered and bruised the football team climbed back onto the bus for the long ride

climbed
team
bus
football

Gatsby comment that nick looks familiar to him. what surprising connection do they have?

In your own words, explain the purpose and impact an adjective clause has on a reader

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