Two children fear their neighbor, an elderly woman who
rarely goes outside. They invent stories about her, insisting
that she is secretly a witch. Eventually, one of the children's
mothers tells the children that the woman is lonely and has
a hard time moving quickly. The mother and the children
visit the woman, who turns out to be an excellent
storyteller. The children decide they like her.
Which statement most accurately describes two literary themes of the story?

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