The erie canal was the most spectacular engineering achievement of the young republic this sentence is which of the following? a. symbolic b. figurative c. simile d. literal

What type of figurative language is used in this sentence from james joyce's "the dead"? his soul swooned slowly as he heard the snow falling faintly through the universe and faintly falling. a. metaphor b. alliteration c. hyperbole d. euphemism

Which of these excerpts from margaret frink's memoir makes heaviest use ofimagery? oa. the bottom was divided off into little compartments orcupboards. after putting in our provisions, and other baggage, afloor was constructed over all, on which our mattress was laid.ffob. the wagon was packed and we were all ready to start on thetwenty-seventh day of march.he.ww.as born and raised in thweslelend& rnewyork. i, margaret ann alsip, his wife, was born in maryland, thoughpartly raised in virginia, on the banks of the potomac river.inod. we situated ourselves one hundred and twenty-five miles fromcheviot, in the town of martinsville, the county seat of morgancounty, indiana.w

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