Tim Berners-Lee imagined a system in which information could be exchanged between computers. How did this idea influence his life's work?

A. It triggered his interest in building personal computers.

B. It inspired him to develop the World Wide Web.

C. It became the first step in building his own microprocessor.

D. It encouraged him to publicly popularize his links to Enquire.

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