The writer wants to alter the passage for an audience that is unfamiliar with the historical period of Shakespeare’s time. Which of the following changes best accomplishes this goal? A. In sentence 1, adding “English author” after “than”

B. In sentence 4, changing “the Victorian era” to “Queen Victoria’s reign”

C. In sentence 6, changing “skeptics” to “challengers”

D. In sentence 10, deleting “in Latin, the classics, and rhetoric”

E. In sentence 11, adding “(equivalent to a modern-day mayor)” after “bailiff”

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