Every year, Marco's family gets together to make tamales before Christmas. They use a recipe that was passed down to them by Marco's great-grandmother. Would this be considered a tradition for Marco's family? yes, because Marco has a special way of making tamales that has been passed down through his family yes, because Marco has a special way of making tamales that only he knows how to do no, because Marco uses a common way of making tamales that he found in a cookbook no, because Marco does not use a special tool that was passed down through his family

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