Sparknites translationif music be the food of love, play on, give me excess of it that, surfeiting, the appetite may sicken and so die. that strain again, it had a dying fall. o, it came o’er my ear like the sweet sound that breathes upon a bank of violets, stealing and giving odour. enough, no more, ’tis not so sweet now as it was before. [music ceases]

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