Which quotation from the answer choices below demonstrates the use of commas with a nonessential element? a. Each time they caught a glimpse of an animal, Jan's mom would lower her voice while they watched for the animal to come into view. b. Then, just ahead, a deer and her baby, called a fawn, cautiously stepped right onto the trail in front of Jan and her mom. c. While the mother deer stopped and stated at Jan and her mom, she also was making sure her baby was safe. d. "Stay back here, Jan," she said quietly.

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