Which of the following sentences is punctuated correctly?
A It was, a warm calm day with the potential to
get better.
B. It was a warm calm day with the potential to
get better.
C. It was a warm calm, day with the potential to
get better.
D. It was a warm, calm day with the potential to
get better.

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

What is the theme of "the story of the fisherman”? anger can be powerful. cleverness trumps wrath. good luck comes to those who wait. power corrupts people.

Read the following excerpt and answer the question. "i can think of no one objection, that will possibly be raised against this proposal, unless it should be urged, that the number of people will be thereby much lessened in the kingdom." (a modest proposal) the implicit meaning of the text is a. there are no reasonable objections to the author's proposal. b. the overpopulation problem is so dire that selecting some humans to be a food source is a just solution. c. a disadvantage of the proposal is that there will be fewer people under the monarchy. d.the situation in ireland is so bad that it calls for radical change.