Part a: which statement best expresses the central ideas of the text? a allowing yourself to feel confused is a necessary part of developing your brain and understanding yourself. b confusion is more important to intellectual growth than it is to understanding your identity. c it takes a certain degree of self-confidence and maturity to admit that you don’t have all the answers. d feeling confused is something that will fade with time and experience as you acquire all of the answers.

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