Read the paragraph. The dogs would not stop chasing each other. Instruments flew off the shelves of the exam room and the paper covering on the table was in shreds. I had no idea what to do and started to question whether or not I had made the right choice. After I signed up to intern at a veterinary clinic, I had visions in my head of gently holding a tiny kitten, while feeding it a bottle. Or assisting the vet with an exam, or cleaning cages. The situation had suddenly gotten seriously out of control and I was clueless as to how to stop it.

The best way to describe the order of the events in the paragraph is that they are told in

A. structured order.
B. unstructured order.
C. nonchronological order.
D. chronological order.

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