Check Your Understanding At this point, you have practiced the necessary steps to prepare yourself in making
your own composition. Read and follow the instructions below to make your composition.
Write it on your answer sheet.
PART A – Prewriting: Once you have decided on the text type that you wish to write,
conceptualize the contents of your composition using a brainstorm web.
PART B – Writing Proper: Now that your ideas are in place, you may start writing your
seven to ten-sentence composition. Read the rubric on the answer sheet to know how
you will be graded for this activity.
Remember
Study this graphic organizer to help you recall the lesson.

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