Read the following passage and answer the question.

i drove my weight on it from above and bored it home
as a shipwright bores his beam with a shipwright's drill
that men below, whipping the strap back and forth, whirl
and the drill keeps twisting faster, never stopping –

what is odysseus attempting to do in this passage?

odysseus is attempting to hold onto a tree branch while waiting for his raft to emerge from charybdis.
odysseus is attacking polyphemus by staking him in the eye.
odysseus is repairing his ship after withstanding a violent ocean storm.
odysseus is teaching his crew how to fight in case the other cyclopses attack them.

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