Read the excerpt below and answer the question. the incident had occurred and was gone for me: it was an incident of no moment, no romance, no interest in a sense; yet it marked with change one single hour of a monotonous life. my had been needed and claimed; i had given it: i was to have done something; trivial, transitory though the deed was, it was yet an active thing, and i was weary of an existence all passive. (chapter 12) if this excerpt were rewritten to incorporate rochester’s impressions of his first encounter with jane eyre, which of the following would be the most likely affect on this portion of the story? it would increase the tension. it would diminish the tension. it would lighten the mood. it would darken the mood.

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