What would be the best way to paraphrase this paragraph? A.
Because of young people like Homer Hickam, American scientists were able to build rockets that would reach other part of outer space.
B.
The Soviet Union launched Sputnik, the first satellite, in 1957, which caused America to establish a goal of putting a man on the moon by the end of 1969.
C.
The race between America and the Soviet Union to dominate space inspired Americans like Homer Hickam to explore the field even further.
D.
Homer Hickam, the son of a coal miner, began a rocket club with a few of his friends from high school, and their rockets attracted some attention.

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