What is a central idea in "Flood Myths from Around the World"? A. Ancient societies have commonly used the story of a goddess becoming ill and failing to control the river as a way to understand the natural phenomenon of flooding that they struggled to control.

B. Ancient societies have used flood myths involving an angry deity sending a flood to punish humanity as a way to cope with the natural disaster.

C. Ancient civilizations typically have used flood myths involving scheming gods and their human accomplices in order to place blame for natural disasters.

D. Ancient cultures usually invoke the failures of impotent gods in flood myths to give them a way of dealing with devastating floods.

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