What two words or phrases in this excerpt from "thanatopsis" by william cullen bryant best to reveal the meaning of the word blight as it is used in the poem? she has a voice of gladness, and a smile and eloquence of beauty, and she glides into his darker musings, with a mild and healing sympathy, that steals away their sharpness, ere he is aware. when thoughts of the last bitter hour come like a blight over thy spirit, and sad images of the stern agony, and shroud, and pall. and breathless darkness, and the narrow house, make thee to shudder, and grow sick at heart-- go forth, under the open sky, and list to nature's teachings,

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