Which statement does not describe the travel narrative genre?

a. eighteenth-century readers enjoyed the travel narrative genre.

b. travel narratives and traditional fiction narratives are identical in purpose and format.
c. authors write travel narratives for purposes that include military conquest and trade relationships.
d. setting is an important aspect of travel narratives.

Which of the following is a compound complex sentence

Why is blank verse considered traditional?

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