Forever Young: America's Obsession with never growing old (Which of the following best states the central idea of the text?) A) Younger generations are at a disadvantage because they have lost the skills that made older generations creative and innovate. B) Older generations need to better to instruct young people. C) The medias portrayal of the cosmetic surgery industry is ruining American culture and it makes people forget the elderly. D) Many Americans place too much value on youth because technology has lessened the age and wisdom!

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