A whale is different from a fish in many ways. One thing that makes a whale different is that it is a mammal. This means that it is similar to humans in that it needs air to breathe. Fish do not use air. They use their gills to breathe. This means that a whale has to come up for fresh air every few minutes. It holds its breath and can hold its breath for many minutes because of its large lungs.

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