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Speech about parent need to stop forcing their dreams on children

In a short story the narrator's word choice

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

In the adapted excerpt from michael wigglesworth’s day of doom, choose the correct meaning for each underlined word. they rush from beds with giddy ( ** ) heads, and to their windows run, viewing this light, which shines more bright than doth (***) the noon-day sun straightway appears (they see’t with tears) the son of man most dread; who with his train comes on amain () to judge both quick and gone. the answers are in order from the first perenthasis, to the last ones the stars will tell you. **swollen, dizzy, aching ***goes, has, done quickly, late, carefully do