What was one effect of the great compromise?
a) the legislative branch chooses the president through the electoral college system.
b) the legislative branch has the power to challenge decisions made by the president.
c) the legislative branch is made up of both the senate and the house of representatives.
d) the legislative branch has only one house, and it's representatives are determined by state population.

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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