Which answer choice does not explain the dust bowl?
a. the dust bowl was located mostly in the southern part of the united states where the story to kill a mockingbird takes place.
b. the dust bowl added to the problems of the great depression since it displaced many people that relied on farming to provide money for their families.
c. throughout the book, harper lee refers to hardships that the people of maycomb are experiencing, such as banks failing and farmers losing their crops and land because of what has come to be called the dust bowl.
d. the dust bowl was located mostly in the desert part of the united states.

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