PL HELP ASAP... I WILL GIVE BRAINLIEST Participate in the collaborative discussion for Chapter 2 of Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass: American Slave. After the discussion, you will reflect on the experience. Write two to three paragraphs that answer the following questions:

Do you feel you understand the text at a deeper level? How?
What is clear to you now about the text that was not before the discussion?
How was the process? Did your group adhere to the rules of discussion?
How do you feel about your own participation?
What was one thing you noticed about the experience?

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