1) How does the speaker's shift in perspective in line 10 create a sense of surprise in the text?
a.) The speaker emphasizes that she will not be forgotten, but then reveals that she is
gloomy and dishonest.
b.) The speaker emphasizes that her significant other will move on without her, but
then reveals that she will haunt him forever.
c.) The speaker emphasizes the sadness her significant other feels, but then reveals
that she does not reciprocate the feeling.
d.) The speaker emphasizes that all that will remain of her are memories, but then
reveals that she would rather be forgotten than mourned.

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