Read the excerpts and answer the question that follows. everyday use by alice walker (excerpt) i have deliberately turned my back on the house. it is three rooms, just like the one that burned, except the roof is tin; they don't make shingle roofs any more. there are no real windows, just some holes cut in the sides, like the portholes in a ship, but not round and not square, with rawhide holding the shutters up on the outside. this house is in a pasture, too, like the other one. no doubt when dee sees it she will want to tear it down. she wrote me once that no matter where we "choose" to live, she will manage to come see us. but she will never bring her friends. freeway 280 by lorna dee cervantes i scramble over the wire fence that would have kept me out. once, i wanted out, wanted the rigid lanes to take me to a place without sun, without the smell of tomatoes burning on swing shift in the greasy summer air. maybe it's here en los campos extraños de esta ciudad where i'll find it, that part of me mown under like a corpse or a loose seed. how is the character dee in the excerpt from "everyday use" similar to the speaker in "freeway 280"? a: both have cherished their heritage and everything they have learned from it. b: both have yearned to escape the environment they experienced as a child. c: both have wanted to study their own cultural traditions. d: both have looked to their mothers as sources of inspiration.

B. Both have yearned to escape the environment they experienced as a child.

Explanation:

Dee is the object of desire, amazement, and tumult among her relatives, while as an individual she scans for individual significance and a more grounded feeling of self. Dee's judgmental nature has influenced Mama and Maggie, and want for Dee's endorsement runs somewhere down in them two—it even shows up in Mama's fantasies about a broadcast gathering. In any case, Dee does not make a big deal about a push to win the endorsement of Mama and Maggie. Unflappable, not effectively scared, and overflowing with certainty,  

in "Freeway 280" the storyteller abruptly lifts the tone and reports to the perusers the growing of the new grasses helping the perusers the flexibility to remember nature, and the soul of the uprooted network. The expressions "raised scar" and the "counterfeit windsounds" plainly pass on the writer's dissatisfaction with the turnpike. The old trees, similar to the elderly people ladies who come to assemble the foods grown from the ground greens developing on the ground, are the gatekeepers of the network soul.

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1.   in sonnet 18, the speaker wants to describe the beauty of his love, but can’t find the words to do so. the speaker says “then in mid-utterance the lay was lost” when he tries to think of the words to describe his love’s beauty.   through his defeat of finding words to describe his love, he shows his love for her.

2.   instead of describing how perfect his love is or comparing her to other beautiful things, he says she is average and there is nothing special about her.   at the last 2 lines of the poem, the volta changes the poem by saying that even though his love is average in beauty, his love for her is special and unique. so instead of praising her throughout the whole poem, he contrasts her average characteristics with his special love for her.

3.   the beloved asked the speaker to describe how he feels about her. she begins to describe what she feels but "drop the torch" and says that she can't do it because the words "hid in me out of reach." the the speaker says "nay, let the silence of my womanhood command my woman-love to thy belief" and that her silence will have to be the answer to his question.