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,
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cassius, casca, and their allies plant false documents to manipulate brutus to join their cause to remove caesar. after doing so, they visit brutus at night in his home to persuade him of their views. there they plan caesar's death. brutus is troubled but refuses to confide in his devoted wife, portia. on 15 march, caesar's wife, calpurnia, urges him not to go to the senate. she has had visionary dreams and fears the portents of the overnight storms.

its he tried to add or forgive me but he said forego