Read the passage, highlighting words that create tone. the cia planning was extraordinary. questions were asked. problems were anticipated, solutions suggested. with information provided by an informant in the soviet state-run telephone operation, the u. s. knew that the spot they needed to reach with the tunnel was under schonefelder chaussee, a major highway that ran along the southern edge of berlin. . to reach the target beneath schonefelder chaussee, the tunnel needed to be about 1,500 feet long, roughly as long as five football fields. engineers figured that a six-foot-high tunnel of that length would displace about three thousand tons of sandy soil. –the dark game, paul janeczko which word best describes the tone of the passage? discouraged impressed curious negative

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