Read the excerpt from song, “brother, can you spare a dime? ” once i built a railroad, made it run, made it race against time. once i built a railroad, now it's done— which idea is conveyed in the excerpt? 1.the speaker does not want to build rails anymore.2.all the necessary railroad tracks have been completed.3.the american railroads are the fastest in the world.4.the speaker used to have work, but now there isn’t any.

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