Ok, so i just wanted to clarify something, and see if i am correct and incorrect.

i know the difference between "i couldn't care less," and "i could care less". both are actually wrong and right, but "i couldn't care less," is more used in grammar. why do individuals get so offended when occasionally i express "i could care less"? i mean i do care, but i care in a less manner instead of not caring that implies i don't care at all. it is impossible if you couldn't care because you wouldn't care at all instead of less.

so annoying, tell me if i'm right or not? ?

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