Which is the best way to join sentences 12 and 13? (12) Outside of cities, there are rough trails. (13) There are
flat surfaces, too.

A. Outside of cities, there are rough trails; flat surfaces, too.

B. Outside of cities, there are rough trails, but flat surfaces, too.

C. Outside of cities, there are rough trails as well as flat surfaces.

D. Outside of cities, there are rough trails, there are flat surfaces, too.

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