Project: backward look here is your goal for this lesson: practice taking a backward look to determine your personal skills one method to you see the direction your life is going in is to see where you've been. list your most enjoyed or successful experiences, achievements, honors, jobs, hobbies, projects, roles, etc. in the order of their significance to you. analyze the things you have done and the significant moments in your life. see if you can find a pattern or direction. , i need it as soon as now.

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