Review the underlined sentence on page 2. What idea does Kennedy's repetition of the wording
“not to our ... but to our ... " emphasize?

A.) Frost made contributions that helped America
become both more powerful and more reflective.

B.) Frost helped Americans grasp that all contributions
to education and politics should be acknowledged.

C.) Frost made contributions that were distinct from
those typically recognized in America.

D.) Frost helped Americans realize that some
contributions viewed as important were trivial.

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