Read this passage from "beethoven's moonlight sonata":   "a pale young man was sitting by the table, making shoes, and near him, leaning sorrowfully upon an old-fashioned fortepiano, sat a young girl, with a profusion of light hair falling over her face. both were cleanly but very poorly dressed, and both started and turned toward us as we entered."  why does the author of this story give so much description of these people?   a. to capture their humble circumstances and their quiet dignity   b. to capture the great contrast between their appearances and behaviors   c. to capture the intensity of beethoven's passion for their music   d. to capture the loveliness of their relationship with one another

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