Here are the main points for an informative speech about the book to kill a mockingbird. i. to kill a mockingbird was the first, and only, novel written by harper lee. ii. to kill a mockingbird won a pulitzer prize for literature and became a modern classic. iii. to kill a mockingbird has been banned by some public schools because of its themes. according to your textbook, these main points are arranged in order.

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