For the growers, time truly was money. The only way to make a lot of sugar is to engineer a
system in which an army of workers swarms through the
fields, cuts the cane, and hauls the pile to be crushed into
a syrup that flows into the boiling room. There, laboring
around the clock, workers cook and clean the bubbling
liquid so that the sweetest syrup turns into the sweetest
sugar. This is not farming the way men and women had
done it for thousands of years in the Age of Honey. It is
much more like a factory, where masses of people must
do every step right, on time, together, or the whole
system collapses.
-Sugar Changed the World,
Marc Aronson and Marina Budhos
how do the authors support their claim and purpose with word choice?

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