Which choices BEST analyze how the second paragraph of this passage functions in the overall argument? (Choose all that apply). A)
It injects much needed humor in an otherwise serious argument about the
abolition of slavery.
B)
It reverses the common notions of women, asserting that they do not want
to be helped at all.
C)
It calls out the white men who say they value women highly by showing
that they ignore black women.
D)
It gives vivid details about the hardship that black women of the time were
forced to face in life.
E)
It gives statistical and logical reasons that support the abolition of slavery
for the western territories of the United States

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