Which is the best definition of psychic distance?
O
A. The distance characters perceive between each other because of
psychological stress
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B. The distance writers must put between fiction and the events it is
based on
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C. The distance readers sense between themselves and the events
of the story
D. The distance covered in geographical terms from the beginning to
the end of the story
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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