Could you be so kind as to put your feet on the coffee table, so that I can vacuum under them? I do hate to bother
you, but it would be a great help to me, if it's not too much
trouble for you.
What is the narrator's most likely point of view?
A. He is annoyed that he is doing his listener's job,
B. He feels pressure to finish vacuuming quickly.
C. He feels his listener is being lazy.
D. He feels he is being a burden to his listener.

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