Sample response: because yoyo’s first language is not english, she has a unique accent. the other girls at school make fun of her because her speech sounds different than theirs. yoyo is afraid to stand up in front of her classmates and give a speech because they might make fun of her. what did you discuss in your response? check all that apply. conflict with the language conflict with the new society conflict with yoyo’s classmates conflict with yoyo’s own insecurity

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