Read the excerpt from a student’s essay. the most striking thing about general zaroff is his blatant disregard of human life. it is clear that his years of hunting and fighting in wars has hardened him against feeling any sympathy for his human prey. this is very clear, when he describes the people he hunts to rainsford. he call them the "scam of the earth” and says the world is better off without them. which transition best fills in the blank? because for instance above all finally

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