In the following excerpt, what method does the writer use to introduce the essay?
Attendance at Chelsea High School had hovered at a disappointing 90 percent for years, and school officials were determined to
turn things around. So. last fall they decided to give students in this poverty-stung city just north of Boston a little extra
motivation: students would get $25 for every quarter they had perfect attendance and another S25 if they managed perfect
attendance all year. Chelsea High is not the only school trying to improve attendance with incentives for students.

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