Hey guys having trouble picking a profile picture heres a tip!: like take my pfp for example it shows I like to read comics and watch a little anime I shows my love for cats and other animals and it show that sometimes ppl think im cute just like the pfp lets say u put a mem for ur pfp some ppl might think ur funny and a boy y idk but if u put like a flower for ur pfp people might think u like that flower and that the color of the flower is ur mood and how u are and that ur a girl, get the idea if not im always open to help lol

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