In direct characterization, an author to tell the readers what a charter is like. 1.appearance 2. thoughts 3.statement 4.actions

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

In at least 150 words, explain the symbolism of the quilt in “everyday use.”

What rhetorical device is used in the following sentence? with confidence in our armed forces - with the unbounded determination of our people - we will gain the inevitable triumph - so us god.