1. what change, if any, is needed in sentence 15?

#15. when i frowned, she seemed to sense something was wrong, and her smile slow faded.

a. delete the comma after wrong

b. change slow to slowly

c. change was to is

d. make no change

2. what change, if any, is needed in sentence 22?

#22. their storys made her feel bad, and she felt that she could never be as smart and witty as i am.

a. change their to there

b. delete the comma after bad

c. delete storys to stories

d. make no change

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