The city has put on a film festival every may for the past five years. however, it is time for the film festival to stop. every year, crowds arrive and mess up our city. i can't stand it anymore. others will say that the festival is a very popular tourist event and provides a huge source of revenue for the city, which is why local businesses have signed a petition supporting it. however, i'm sure you agree it isn't worth it. which statement best describes the author's use of a thesis and a counter- argument in the passage? o a. the passage does not contain o b. the passage does not include a counter-argument. o c. the author's thesis is not supported by strong evidence. o d. the counter-argument is not supported by strong evidence.

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