What is the narrator's tone in this passage? Read the excerpt from Does My Head Look Big in This?
by Randa Abdel-Fattah.
O nostalgic
O nervous
Oresentful
I hate the fact that I had to leave Hidaya. But it only goes
up to tenth grade because it doesn't have enough
funding to offer eleventh and twelfth grades. My best
friends, Leila Okulgen and Yasmeen Khan, moved on to
a public high school close to Coburg, where they live. I
begged my parents to let me go with them but Mom and
Dad insisted that I go to a private school.
O conflicted

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