1. Jacques called up his friend Susanne, who had moved to Pennsylvania. She described how much she loved climbing the hills and swimming in the
mountain lakes. He laughed and said it sounded great-but he was going to
stay right where he was, in Kansas. He liked the broad flat land, with its
glowing wheat fields. He felt as though he could see for miles and miles.
A. What or whom is being compared or contrasted?
B. Is comparison or contrast being used?
c. What clues helped you decide whether comparison or contrast was being
used?

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