Which literary device is used in the comparison between the speaker's experience of fleeing the country and floating in the ocean?
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An extended metaphor is used in the comparison between the speaker's experience of fleeing the country and floating in the ocean in the following lines from the poem 'Exile' by Julia Alvarez.
'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.'
According to Wikipedia, 'An extended metaphor, also known as a conceit or sustained metaphor, is an author’s exploitation of a single metaphor or analogy at length through multiple linked tenors, vehicles, and grounds throughout a poem or story.'