PLS ANSWER ASAP Which details from “Rip Van Winkle” reflect characteristics of an American mythology? Select the two correct answers. a) Rip Van Winkle returns to his village after mysteriously disappearing twenty years earlier.
b) The village in which the Van Winkles live is set in a beautiful part of the country, surrounded by woods and mountains.
c) Rip Van Winkle and his wife, like many married couples, struggle to get along and to make a living.
d) Dame Van Winkle is an exaggerated character whose excessive nagging affects Rip Van Winkle's behavior as well as the plot of the story.

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