Read this passage: Emma and her best friend, Jackie, stand side by side in
graduation robes and caps. As Jackie is called to the stage
to receive her diploma, Emma remembers meeting her
friend for the first time. As if it was yesterday, Emma sees
the leaves dancing across the playground as a little
redheaded girl rushes after a hat. Soon, she is joined by
another little girl with hair so black it's almost blue.
Together they chase the hat until one of them is able to
grab it, and then they both collapse in a heap of giggles.
Shaking her head, Emma watches Jackie hold her diploma
above her black hair as the friends smile widely at each
other.
Which literary element does the passage contain?
A. Flashback
B. Foreshadowing
C. Inciting incident
D. Parallel plots

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