Which of these is an example of the kind of claim that would go in an opinion essay? 1.Myths are fun to read because the characters usually have special powers.
2.Myths can teach you how people used to think about the world and about human life.
3.Myths are the only kind of story I don't like to read. They're boring.
4.Myths are like movies that happen inside my head

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