Choose the best Spanish equivalent to the phrase. They wait for him to come back. Ellos espera que él regrese. Ellos esperan que él regrese. Ellos esperamos que él regrese. Ellos esperas que él regrese.

The whale was a missile blasting from beneath the surface.  2.) a majestic whale leapt skyward before diving back into the sea.    these are both figurative language. this is so because the whale in sentence "1" was not actually a missile, nor was it actually blasting. now, for sentence "2", a whale can not actually "leap".