4. Which of the following quotes best supports your answer to #3?
"They tell me you are wicked and I believe them, for I have seen
your painted women under the gas lamps luring the farm boys."
"And having answered so I turn once more to those who sneer at
this my city, and I give them back the sneer and say to them:
"And they tell me you are crooked and I Yes, it is true !
have seen the gunman kill and go free to kill again,
"Come and show me another city with lifted head singing so proud
to be alive and coarse and strong and cunning."

If price and worth mean the same thing, why priceless and worthless are opposites?

What elements of mythology and folklore are important to humans

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