25) However, in the sport of road racing, common people and novice
joggers can lace up and be in the same race as the world-class
runners competing to win it all.
In this sentence from the first paragraph of the passage, how does the
author help a reader understand the meaning of the word novice?
A) by including a definition in the sentence.
B)
by giving examples of novice joggers
C) by repeating the word in surrounding sentences.
D)
by comparing novice joggers to world-class runners

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