Which literary technique does this passage best illustrate? as the sun fell, she sat on the porch and counted the fireflies while the memories returned and rolled across her eyelids like an old film reel, the faces of the people she'd loved approaching and retreating as the moon made its slow ascent in the dark sky. a. contrivance b. foreshadowing c. pacing d. dialogue

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