Activity 2 Directions: Identify the reason/s or claim's presented by the writer in the
paragraph
On ABS-CBN Shutdown
The attempt to shut down ABS-CBN is a thinly-veiled attack on press
freedom "This govemment is hellbent on using all its powers to shut down the
broadcast network," the National Union of Journalists in the Philippines
(NUJP) declared in a statement. "We must not allow the vindictiveness of one man,
no matter how powerful, to run roughshod over the constitutionally guaranteed
freedoms of the press and of expression, and the people's night to know.
- Thets Torres​

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